Feeding & watering

Week 4 #9

From a central place in my garden I can send water out to selected points in a very controlled manner via the use of pipes. In much the same way (but in reverse) RSS enables you to gather select blogs or feeds from around the virtual world and direct them to a central point of your choosing. (and you don't have to wait until 8 pm to do it!)

I have created my bloglines account and added the required number of blog links from YPRL participants, news sites, genealogy feeds, school library sites etc. This was very easy to do much to my relief. One thing I couldn't work out was how to display my Bloglines account. I tried to follow the instructions but they didn't work.

Realistically I have little interest in reading these feeds/blogs at this stage. I'm inclined to find them a time-waster but am prepared to be converted. Perhaps when I find more blogs that I want to revisit regularly I will sing RSS praises.

However it is possible that senior students who need to keep tabs on issues for English etc, may find this a convenient way to at least keep up with the current headlines. I could also see that if you wished to keep up with shared ideas in a particular area that a feed would save you the time of checking each newsletter etc individually. Perhaps YPRL could have a feed containing latest activities/news for subscribers.

Here ends my reflective piece on feeding ... and not a pat of manure to be seen!!!