I could spend hours and hours scrolling through RSS links, and linking to information to baseball, to a British author, to a foreign correspondent working for the New York Times. I love this task. And to be honest, I never really paid much attention to RSS in the past, to linking to blogs, and I'm regretting this now.
It's fanstastic. I could become addictive to joining RSS feeds about things that interest me.
However, that does lead to essentially the only downside - if you signed up to too many blogs you would wind up suffering from information overload.
I can see how libraries could use newsreaders - it's so quick and easy to subscribe too something you're interested in, it just takes one click. But there's a danger that any information libraries put on their newsfeeder or blog could get lost in the crowd if people sign up to a lot of blogs and newsreaders. It would also be important that libraries update fairly regularly - not everyday, but once or twice a week.
I don't use a newsreader, but I'm tempted to now! : )
23 things might have created a monster.
- library earthling
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