Thing 5

The various ways to subscribe to RSS feeds were pretty straightforward. Each feedreader/news aggregator has a different look and feel to it, and since I am most comfortable with Google Reader there was a bit of a learning curve for me in getting used to Bloglines. I was most impressed with the Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet for its ease of use, though I did have to mess around with that a bit in order for it to engage properly.

After figuring out the various ways to subscribe (clicking the RSS button on the blog, copying and pasting the URL, and using the Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet), I did some exploring in my area of interest (for the purposes of this class) - music technology. I know of a few good blogs already (Joe Pisano and James Frankel for example) on this topic, and they have links to many more. I subscribed using the Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet each time, and each time it worked without a problem.

As I have stated before, I fear that I will become overwhelmed with the amount of information that is available on the web and that I will eventually stop checking in on my Bloglines account (as has happened with my Google Reader account). That being said, I think that I will separate the things that I want to read into separate accounts - professional and personal. When combining the two, I find it difficult to focus on what I should be reading, and instead focus on what I want to read. In other words, if I keep the two separate, I won't find myself reading about the the Tigers game when I should be reading Education Weekly.