Sunday, June 17, 2012

Thing 11 (Subscribe to blogs/newsfeeds)

One thing I experienced during this activity was the ability to find RSS Feed logo with my right mouse button (See Thing 10, as I updated my comment there).  Anyway, I did like the Edublog's award winners, especially as a novice to RSS feeds, because it gave suggestions that obviously had enough good points to rate the award.  I would imagine as I get more comfortable with this technology, and even more so get hooked on blogs and news feeds that would hold my interest, I would learn to search beyond the top rated.  Topix and Technorati, though not giving "award winners" in categories, do provide a quick and easy way to find some feeds.  I thought Topix was a little too busy with all the information, and though that may be a plus for some people, it was overwhelming still for my ADD brain.  For the same reason as Edublog, I did like both these sites over just doing a google search on an item of interests, which provided way too much variation in types of sites.

I think the thing I will like most about this technology will be when something comes up that I want to learn more about.  I will be able to add a number of blogs or news feeds on that topic and then be able to read/learn over the course of a couple days or weeks, learning more than I might if I had just done a single search on any given day.  When I am done with that item, I can delete it so that it doesn't "clutter up my brain", so to speak.

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