Thing 3: Set Up an RSS Account and Add Feeds

I love RSS! There is so much information on the Web that sifting through it all takes so much time. This is a great solution to that problem. I wish I had done this before I just spent the last few months learning about international student regulations and continually checking website for updates. In thinking of the new website for work, it would be great to have an RSS feed option for the scholarship page and my new websites for international and veteran students. Of course, this makes me wonder if our students would use it?

I set up a Bloglines account which was a snap to set up. I subscribed to just a few sites because I can see myself subscribing to everything but then not having enough hours in the day to keep up! For now, I am planning to use this only for library information. I think that limiting what you can subscribe to would make it a useful tool. Otherwise, it would feel like a drag and a chore to log into one more thing. I find that between grad school, work and life I do not have enough hours in the day to keep up to date.

The Librarians Internet Index was my first choice to subscribe. The feed is described as 'new and newly discovered websites for librarians and everyone else' and is updated every Thursday.

What I appreciate most about 23 Things is the introduction and hands on approach to learning new technology. I am still wondering if this is just giving me more reasons to sit in front of a computer more than I already do?

Thing 3 content can be found here