Finding Feeds

I don't really think this exercise was too useful to me personally, but now I guess I can help library patrons find news items if they need help. I do not get all my news info from the Internet during the day, so I don't really have a need to subscribe to news feeds. Yahoo is my homepage and news items pop up there during the day for me to browse. I would rather use just my bookmark icon to keep track of other websites I visit instead of sifiting through google reader and if I do continue with this blog after "23 Things" is over I will use the "Blogs I visit" manager to keep up with those.

I did visit the sites mentioned in the discovery exercise. Topix.net was the most useful and I liked how I could put in my zip code for local news feeds. That would be worth using for me. I did not like syndic8.com b/c it wanted me to subscribe with a password and log in. I get tired of subscribing to everything! Technorati.com was full of feeds, but most just seem to be a time sucker! I don't mean to be so negative, I just find all this business of finding feeds and adding them to a reader to be nothing more than watching hours of reality TV - not a very useful way to spend your time. But, I will learn how to do all this so I can stay current!