Thing 4: RSS and Newsreaders

I hope I don't lose my post again.. here it goes.
I set up an account with GoogleReader. As my last post for Thing 3 shows I was confused between a reader/aggregator and a Blog Search engine. Now I've got that figured out. I know that RSS is a way to bring the information to you. As the video explained like Netflix versus the video store. I didn't know any blogs so I just selected all of the staff picks. This was very fun to see what things I started to receive. Some of them I unsubscribed to but some I kept. Next I tried to remember as I visited sites more than once to select the RSS feed signal so that they would come to me instead. I did this with the legal news sites I visit. I also found some suggestions for RSS feeds from professional news journals that I receive. Some of the regular writers of the journals maintain blogs so now I can get those to come to me. It is great because otherwise I would forget. I just set up a feed from one of the 23 things blogs. It was very easy and now I can know if someone has made a new post without going all the way into the Neflin's 23 things list. Nice. Librarians could definitely identify relevant blogs and use RSS feeds to channel them so that they would be easily accessible to patrons. It could be used internally as well, say the reference department could have a collection of feeds that provides access to professional blogs like the professional journal we subscribe to in print.