RSS Feeds

Back in March when I launched the blog, In the Know, for the Professional Collection I made sure to include an RSS feed because the primary purpose of that blog was and continues to be to keep LCLS staff aware of new materials arriving into the Professional Collection. If one were to subscribe to the blog via the RSS feed, every time I update the blog the subscriber would receive that information. What a perfect system!

As I mentioned in my post about my goal, a group of us are involved in a online book discussion group. An RSS feed also would keep a subscriber current on posts there. If we were to have a public book discussion online, patrons might like to subscribe through an RSS feeder to be alerted when new posts had been made.

I check in on several blogs and Web sites on a daily basis (sometimes several times daily) but I have chosen not to register with any aggregator because I enjoy the thrill of clicking on a site and finding new content. In rereading that sentence I find that it would be difficult for it to sound more geeky, but it's true. I have my favorites saved in folders and I spin through them or there are groups of them linked through my other blogs. I guess I like the journey as much as the destination.