Week 4
Thing #8
RSS feeds are a great way to streamline information. In the school library setting, students could create their own homepages, e.g. iGoogle, and establish RSS feeds to receive updates about the library (research tips, new book arrivals, etc.).
As to the future of RSS feeds and the public, one of my current concerns is the future of journalism. We need professionals to continue to ask the important questions. News is getting more limited in the companies who provide it. As newspapers fold and people go to the internet more and more, who will pay the journalists to be there, asking the tough questions. True, there can and will be lots of individuals who post on blogs, etc., but who will be the reliable sources the public can trust for indepth reporting?
Thing #9
Technorati is easy to use and interesting. The school library blogs link wouldn't work for me. I like the RSS feeds, but finding the time to keep up with all the posts is more than I can handle at this point. I think some people post just for the sake of posting. I wish there was a requirement that you had to make a point. This task left me feeling lacking. Took a long time to post. Enjoyed the previous tasks more.
posted by BookMama at
2:41 AM
2 Comments:
Looks good! Hope you will work on School Library Learning 2.0 during summer vacation. Best wishes.
I agree with your comment about the future of journalism. As more and more people rely on the internet for "free" information, we've seen a lot of our professional sources go bankrupt. When explaining our subscription services, I always tell the students the saying, "You get what you pay for, because professional authors who get paid for their work are going to give you better information."
We used to get the Times and Register newspapers daily delivered to our library, but starting this year, they stopped delivery and offered the online version instead. While many students would come by and grab the paper version, very few have the time to sit down and get an article from the online paper, even though we keep a station open with the paper all day.
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