Coordinated Connections are Cool

RSS Feeds. One more advancement using technology to bring together your interests and most recent news at a simple click. This week I explored Bloglines.com and added RSS feeds (Really Simple Syndication). The idea is to gather together all of the sites and blogs you regularly check into a list. When you click on a site, you will see the most recent post instantly.

I had trouble getting Bloglines.com to set me up at first and later Blogger.com was down and wouldn't let me post, so technology still is not perfect. In eagerly setting up the sites I wanted to include, I discovered many of them do not have RSS feeds. However, I did start the process of including several sites that would be useful to a librarian engaged in collection development and reader's advisory along with one or two blogs from personal friends. A few I added are Amazon's Top 100 bestselling books, Entertainment Weekly's Books, and an RA site called EarlyWord. Recently I read, Samurai Shortstop. A father is hard on his son for taking the train when he could easily walk many miles to his destination. The son balks and praises the train for its speed. The father remarks coldly that we are foolish if we think modern conveniences free up time. Is it really better to fast forward in the interest of efficiency, or is there still a place for a deep breath and a dose of old fashioned pondering. Hmmm.