Work stuff and fluff...: Thing # 8

lol - I love this technology and the fact that I might actually be able to keep up with all my favourite blogs now... Usually i forget to check on them regularly, or they don't post regularly, and i lose track of what my fav online people are up to.

The "how-to" Bloglines website was the best. This guy gave clear and concise instructions and it has been the easiest thing to follow yet!

I finally figured out that you had to change your account settings and set up a username and make your bloglines subs public first...

So now (hopefully) you can check out my bloglines subscriptions at

http://www.bloglines.com/public/hellfluffy

I see there being a use for feeds within libraries, as more libraries, and librarians, see blogs as a venue for deseminating important information about their library.

We were talking the other day about having a blog, or something similar, to let customers know what our newest resources are - so they do not have to wade through the catalogue to find the few items of interest to them - Heritage floor don't you know. Donations come in dribs and drabs, and acquisitions come when they do, so there may not be anything new one month and a lot of items the next. And amongst these items, there may only be 1-2 items of interest to a particular person, it makes sense for them to be able to see a brief list of our additions.

I know we could just have a list on the website but who really wants to have to punch down 2-3 layers just to get an idea of what is new in... It's almost easier to just come in to the library.

Or we could send out the information in an email - but that then introduces problems of its own.

We'll just have to wait and see...

PS: I just found I could sub' to the weather for Auckland - I like the pretty pictures but the wind speed is in mph not km/h and the temp is in F not Celcius. Oh well you get the general idea from the pix anyway... I suppose that's all I need.

So for the weather for the rest of the week will be...

Tuesday