Well, it took awhile, but I finally did it, and if I have to say so myself - yay! Once I had seen feeds appearing on other blogs, I wanted to do the same. Three days/sessions later, over a few weeks and I have managed to add a selection of feeds to my blog. I think my biggest hurdle was navigating around the Bloglines site which I found to be a little clunky. After re-reading the instructions numerous times, and a bit of fiddling, I worked it out. So the moral of the story is - if you want to do something enough you will work it out.
RSS would definitely make life easier for those who want to keep in touch with what's changing on a whole lot of sites. The potential it holds for groups of people who share a common interest would be infinite. And I can see why there are so many library related blog popping up, but it makes you wonder is there a blog overload. (Probably not as everyone is part of their own niche.) I guess, a less techy way of explaining RSS would be - a means of going to one website, to see what's been happening in all your favourite websites.
There are a lot different ways that libraries can implement this type of technology and I've already been thinking how our library service's web presence can implement these tools.
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