I find my attitude to RSS feeds is somewhat mixed - yes, it's a quick and easy way of following almost anything on the web, but apt to generate a lot of noise, too, especially if you're subscribing to something with a high output.
So far, it seems easiest to use the Google reader and put the feeds into their own folders, so the high outputters don't swamp everything else. If you use iGoogle, the reader gadget lets you see quickly what's come in.
Putting them into Explorer is simple (and you can sort them into folders there). Cross-linking them to Outlook probably not a good idea - will use up storage space very quickly. (Who wants to be constantly told they have xhundred unread messages?) Why can't you set a feed to only show the last 10, or last week's worth or whatever? Or can you and I haven't found it?
Ultimately, though, I'd rather just go straight to the blogs I read. You have to go there anyway to see comments etc. For alerts, I'd rather have an email going to the appropriate folder.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
First Things
Well, it's Wednesday again and the first five are done.
The 71/2 habits are really commonsense - see a need, decide to fill it and work out how to do it. It may be a very big challenge or something quite small, but the process is much the same.
The big 'end in mind' that this blog will (hopefully) chronicle is to gain experience with a number of what are usually known as Web 2.0 tools and (hopefully) to find a practical use for some of them. The small, practical goal is to write a post every Wednesday and to fulfil that I will need to keep up with the "things".
Some new things are here this time - iGoogle, Google Earth and Zotero (which I think will impress me very much) - sadly Twitter is still there (which I don't think will impress me at all).
The three greatest obstacles are time, time and time - we shall see if the Wednesday deadline is successful.
The 71/2 habits are really commonsense - see a need, decide to fill it and work out how to do it. It may be a very big challenge or something quite small, but the process is much the same.
The big 'end in mind' that this blog will (hopefully) chronicle is to gain experience with a number of what are usually known as Web 2.0 tools and (hopefully) to find a practical use for some of them. The small, practical goal is to write a post every Wednesday and to fulfil that I will need to keep up with the "things".
Some new things are here this time - iGoogle, Google Earth and Zotero (which I think will impress me very much) - sadly Twitter is still there (which I don't think will impress me at all).
The three greatest obstacles are time, time and time - we shall see if the Wednesday deadline is successful.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
23 Things all over again.....
Web 2.0 for researchers was perhaps really Web 2.0 distractions for researchers, but it's good to have the problem recognized.
With this in mind, the most interesting thing I've read this past week was Mark Bauerlein's article Screen no match for the page in higher education (The Australian Higher Education 8 October 2008)
While considering all we may gain, "maybe" we should consider what we may lose as well.
With this in mind, the most interesting thing I've read this past week was Mark Bauerlein's article Screen no match for the page in higher education (The Australian Higher Education 8 October 2008)
While considering all we may gain, "maybe" we should consider what we may lose as well.
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