Monday, November 24, 2008

Thing 2: rEALLY sILLY sTUFF

rss feeds....hmmmm....

I think I subscribed....but I have quibbles....

1. In the written directions, the type is too small! I understand the saving paper/being green thing, but have pity on those of us with aging eyes.
2. Also in written directions: the orange icon called "posts" in the directions is called "feeds" on our screen, and is at the top right rather than the top left. This may be a peculiarity of our browser, but it's confusing.
3. I was never shown either option of "add to google" or "add to google reader", but when I logged onto google reader, all my little rss feeds were there, so I can only assume it worked.
3a. Okay, so now I realized (belatedly) that the "posts" doo-dad was on the techplay blog itself, and there too were "add to google" and "add to google reader."
4. I watched the video. It didn't really help.
5. So, now if I want to access these various feeds, I have to log onto google reader, right? The feeds don't magically appear in my email or my blog, correct?
5a. rss feeds seem a bit like much ado about nothing to me. I guess if I never got out of my computer bunker (kidding, here), rss feeds would be a good way to track the 10 zillion blogs etc. that I would follow if I led that isolated, oddball existence. But since I lead my oddball existence out in the world and am at a computer every day, just checking blogs I like seems easier. But, "whatevs", as the kids say...it's interesting!
6. Comments, corrections, etc. are most welcome.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Kim -

    I think you're right. I signed up for a Google Reader account a few months ago and don't use it very often. However, now that everybody at the Lib has a blog, it's a cool way to track them all. You're doing a great job - just hang in there!

    Bridget

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