Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Finding Feeds

Library training is entrenched! I found that I automatically liked some sites because of their layout (eg. reading from left to right), or the types of subject categories.

Feedster - I spent some time trying to find exactly what I wanted, but eventually succumbed to other search tools.
Topix.net - surprisingly I discovered I liked the "All Topics" listing, scrolled down to "Health and ADHD", then searched on "Oranges". I found 3 useful updates. Maybe it helps to be interested in a very specific subject - you can find your way through the maze more easily.
Syndic8.com - I found this difficult to get used to the layout, but suspect there's some really useful stuff here.
Technorati - now suddenly this layout felt "comfortable"!

Nevertheless I still haven't discovered the search style that suits me best, so am still taking a while discovering what I really want. I thought the 100 Top Blogs was useful eg. discovered Read/Write Web (growing network of blogs about web technology).

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