Week Five: RSS and Feed Readers

Ok, I know I say this every week it seems, but this week's lesson was excellent and I am loving it! I have seen those little RSS Feed icons everywhere, but never really investigated what all you can do with them. I have added them to my "favorites" in my web browser, but had no clue that there were Feed Reader websites that I could use to have all that information just come to me, without me having to click each link seperately or without just going to each of my favorite sites everyday and seeing what's new. WHAT A TIME SAVER!!! Did I already say that I am loving this.

I decided to go with Google Reader. My plan for all these lessons is to hopefully always choose the tool associated with google because I like the home screen when you log-in and all of it right there in front of you, without me having to type in various sites. Google has my calendar, picassa photo sharing, blogger and now this. Very cool. I added several sites RSS feeds to my google reader. Both for professional as well as personal use. I will list the sites I am following below. I am also following several 23 Things KS class members blogs using google reader now.

RSS Feeds I am currently following:

9 blogs (23 Things Participants)
VideoETA (New DVD-for movie days) http://feeds.feedburner.com/videoeta-news
Weather.com
Ken Rockwell(photography site) http://www.kenrockwell.com/rss-daily.php
People.com http://feeds.people.com/people/headlines
Dictionary.com http://feeds.reference.com/DictionarycomWordOfTheDay
SLK News http://statelibrary.mykansaslibrary.org/?feed=rss2

I'm sure there will be more added to this list by the time I'm done exploring. :)

I also tried "Activity #3" and added a "feedmyinbox" widget to my blog. You should be able to enter in your e-mail address and receive e-mail updates about my blog. I liked feedmyinbox, but I think I will stick with googlereader.

Great week 23 Things Kansas!