Next on the playlist are the delights of RSS and blogs as sources(?) of news and information (or is that more like opinion, with news and information running not-so-close second and third?!)
Bloglines is one example of a reader to use to gather such joys of e-news to your browser... as if one doesn't have enough to do sorting email!
There are several others - have a play and find one you prefer.
For news around the planet, the Wolf gets some of her updates by RSS feeds from the BBC , the ABC (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, that is!), and Crikey.
Library and information feeds/blogs/blogs with feeds, etc, are varied, to say the least.
Just a couple of the many (and sometimes worrying!) blogs out there that I try to find time to peruse include: Jenny Levine's The Shifted Librarian (interesting discussion lately on Second Life), Stephen M Cohen's LibraryStuff and the new-ish blog by power searcher Mary Ellen Bates - Librarian of Fortune.
One blog host, Blogspot, includes an index to librarians’ blogs. Unrelated to Librarians’ Internet Index, it gives an alpha list by blog name with short description. 'Wide-ranging' is an understated description! Currency seems to be bit of a problem - but we all know that difficulty in our online lives!
A sample of sites with useful - for work stuff - RSS feeds: 'The Australian' newspaper (particularly the business and IT sections), Scientific American, Parliament of Australia website and SearchEngineWatch .
A useful place for library minded readers to start learning about RSS and such tech toys is at Curtin University's RSS page.
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