Week3: RSS and Social Bookmarking

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RSS and Social Bookmarking

RSS

Getting started with RSS
An RSS video overview from CNET
Another Google Reader Tutorial
A Bloglines Tutorial
For the adventurous, a list of other newsreaders out there

NOTE: Because you're clever, you've probably already figured out that you can use the "follow" feature in Blogger to keep track of your fellow participants' blogs. Feel free to do this if you like, but you should also make the time to do it "the hard way," not just to get credit, but to appreciate how easy things become even easier as technology advances!

Other sites you might want to subscribe to...

CNN offers a variety of feeds
So does Reuters
The New York Times has a list of feeds
Scientific American offers plenty of science news feeds
For the anxious, you can even subscribe to the CDC's swine flu feed
On a lighter note, Pop Goes the Library is a group blog that discusses libraries and pop culture
See also Carlie Webber's Librarily Blonde [LAV is a little biased, but thinks Carlie's the best YA librarian in the known universe]

Social Bookmarking

7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking {opens as a .PDF]
The Social Bookmarking Faceoff compares and contrasts various services
The Classroom 2.0 wiki discusses using social bookmarking in education [the entire wiki may be helpful to those of you who work in schools, or with children/teens]
A social bookmarking slideshow:

Here are some accounts you might want to consider adding to your del.icio.us network:

The ALA Library
YALSA
Free Government Information [the number of folks aggregating online gov. docs is staggering]
CLP Main Reference Department
The Second Life Library [we won't cover virtual worlds in this course, but if you're curious, here's a great place to go for news and info]
Ryan, Kelley and LAV also have accounts.

Tags you might want to subscribe to include:

Work-related

library
librarian
readers' advisory
reference
research
government
Web 2.0
Library 2.0
books
reading
Pittsburgh

Just for fun...

crafts
cooking [see also "vegetarian" and "vegan," for those so inclined]
sports [see also individual names of sports, football, basketball, baseball, etc.]
gardening
poetry
cycling
cats
dogs
LOTR

The possibilities are endless, really - any noun you can think of is probably a tag - try searching for a few within del.icio.us and see for yourself!

Other social bookmarking services

There are, of course, other social bookmarking services besides del.icio.us - if you can, take some time to explore the following services and see how they measure up.