Using various RSS aggregators
I've been subscribing to RSS feeds for close to a year now - and I don't know how I got by before them. I began with Bloglines and eventually read a blog feed about how you should try other feed readers. So then I tried GoogleReader. I wasn't a huge fan of the Google reader - I hear it has improved since so it may be worth revisiting. I ended up trying MyYahoo sometime last fall and found that it really suited me. I find it very easy to organize and arrange - plus you can play with your display and colour settings. Now I've discovered that Thunderbird email has an RSS aggregator component - so maybe now I will try that. Regardless as to what feed reader I use, I don't know how I would get by without one. As a new-ish librarian, using an aggregator to sift through multiple blogs on a regular basis has really had an impact on my professional development. Being able to read material posted by other professionals has been truly enlightening. Perhaps this ought to be a recommendation for all students graduating from library school - get yourself an RSS aggregator and start subscribing!
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