Thursday, February 26, 2009

Feed me!

I've just been exploring a bit more with finding feeds. Topix.net looked very overwhelming. I tried searching "libraries" but it did not seem to come up with much. I tried "ancient Rome" and it listed seemingly almost everything published by newspapers about events taking place in various Romes in the US. I think there was about 20 towns (at least) called Rome in the US at first glance! I didn't spend any more time refining my search technique (I'm sure there was an advanced search somewhere). I moved on to look at Syndic8.com and that was easier to navigate. I looked at a librarian community blog which incidentally had a post from someone asking for library blogs to add to her RSS feed. One suggestion was Tame the Web. I visited this blog and decided to add the feed to Bloglines. However I could not find a feed reference anywhere except for right at the bottom of the page. I clicked on it and found it was blocked and deemed a "malicious" site. It looks like feedburner.com, which appears to host the RSS feed for the blog, is banned like Technorati, which is mentioned in the Finding feeds topic information. So Page 2RSS came to the rescue and I now have a feed for that page.

No comments:

Post a Comment