For the second assignment in my blog assignment, I was tasked to create my own RSS feed and publish it on my page. I also had to subscribe to 10 RSS feeds as well as 5 podcasts. I had a vague idea of what a RSS feed was, but I wanted to be sure I checked with our textbook. The author Burke summarizes the a RSS or (rich site summary) are basically groups of posting from other blogs. There are a way to share other sites while also making their own blog feed available to other users.
When it came to finding the actual websites and blogs that I would use for my RSS feeds I already had a few tech sites that I frequent, but needed more to fulfill the required ten. In searching for additional websites, Google was very helpful as a search engine and for the Blogger website. What I do find ironic, is that Google no longer has an RSS reader. I remember the end of the Google RSS reader was a big story a last year in tech news. However, I've had a blog on the Blogger website before this class. I have to say that the ease which it allows links was helpful. Sometimes the hardest part was finding the RSS feed button on a website! In regards to podcasts, I listen to podcast related to other topics of interest in my spare time so the term was familiar to me. What I enjoyed was researching new kinds of podcasts and discovering more websites to learn about information technology.
I will now patiently watch my blog to see if anyone subscribes to my RSS feed.
References:
Burke, J. (2013). Neal-Schuman library technology companion: A basic guide for library staff (Fourth edition.) Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman
Chan, C. (2013, March 13). Google is Killing Google Reader. Retrived from:
http://gizmodo.com/5990454/google-is-killing-google-reader?tag=google-reader
My biggest problem with the RSS feed was finding podcasts and blogs that were still current. It seemed like a lot of them had tapered off recently or were long inactive, so I wonder if podcasts are going out of style.
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