Thing #8

Week 4 - RSS & Newsreaders - RSS feeds and Bloglines

I have been using RSS feeds for a long time now, so I'm very familiar with the way they work. What I have never done is add a link to the feeds to an external site. That was interesting. It took me a bit of fiddling to get everything to look the way I wanted, but I'm happy with the result.

I then decided to create a blogroll using the site Blogger recommends Blogrolling - http://www.blogrolling.com/. I have to say it was very difficult to do. Not because of the technicalities of adding the blogroll, which was very easy, but because of the speed of the TAFE network. It really is atrocious sometimes and makes the prospect of doing anything online fill you with dread.

Anyway enough griping. Using Blogrolling to maintain my blogroll means I can add links to any website I visit by simply clicking on a button on my IE toolbar. I added links to the blogs of all of 23 things participants I have access to in about 10 minutes (It was actually over an hour - see previous rant about the speed of the TAFE network - but it should have taken only 10 minutes). This means I can add links on the fly as I'm surfing the web - very convenient.