Friday, September 19, 2008

RSS feeds -- Items 9, 10 and 11

I now have a feed reader called Google reader receiving RSS feeds from The Age and Digg. I've also searched on Technocrati and subscribed to some blogs. The Practical Archivist (http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThePracticalArchivist) seemed an interesting blog to subscribe to. It is about preserving and dating photographs etc. I also subscribed to Genea-Musings (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Genea-musings) US based genealogy but seems interesting.

The greatest problem with all subscribing seems to be all the clutter on the subscription pages and then the sheer volume of returns and trying to find something that you want that may have a little (or preferrably a lot) of authority. Its very time consuming and confusing to sift the wheat from the chaff. Even if you know the title of something you would like a feed from , it seems you are more likely to turn up a blog talking about them than a blog emenating from them.

I will answer the required questions later.

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