Library blogs on Bloglines

Whoopsie! Thanks to LibraryJoy's blog entry on L&P@CML, I double-checked my entries in the tracking log. I was one of those people who had entered a link other than my actual blog entry. I also noticed that on one of them (Step #9) I hadn't really blogged about it at all, and had presumed that my actual Bloglines account would show the (way too many) library related blogs I subscribe to. I was wrong! Ooops! I do have several subscriptions to library related blogs, most of which I have subscribed for quite some time. Michael Stephens is one. I subscribed to his blog after I had heard him speak at an OLC related event. Similar situation to Helene Blowers blog, when I heard her speak at a Tech Connections conference earlier in 2008. I also have subscriptions to organizational blogs, like PLA and ALA Online News. A few Ohio library blogs caught my eye, like OPLIN Forecast. I read a few personal blogs written by people who work in libraries, like The Shifted Librarian and Bookpusher. This exercise for L&P offered up a few new feeds, including iLibrarian and LibraryThing.

Bloglines

This weeks "thing" to complete was to learn about RSS feeds, create a Bloglines aggregator account, and subscribe to a few newsfeeds. This task was admittedly not a challenge for me as I have been using Bloglines for a couple of years now. I did take the opportunity while participating in this exercise to preview the coming updated Beta version of Bloglines and setting up my subscriptions. One of the best features of the coming version is that you can set up a Start Page with your favorite news feeds, so that if you only want to login and glance at anything new from those feeds you can without having to drill down into your folders to find them. I have not yet discovered the limit on the number you can put on the start page (there may not be one) but I set mine up with about six just to see what it looks like. At the moment, bloglines is allowing users to bounce back and forth between the two versions as the Beta version they are testing does not yet have all the capabilities the older version does (they plan to add them gradually). Click here to view my public Bloglines account.