Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Discovery Exercise (#7.2):Search for RSS Feeds

I really liked Topix-the top stories had clean,unfussy lines and it was fast.
Latest news when I went in was posted an hour ago.
Syndic8 apparently is a directory of feeds,but I found it confusing and slow. Perhaps will go back later for another look.
Technorati is very American. I don't really want to read about Lindsay Lohan as the scoop story.
Probably because I subscribed to Blogline first and spent the most time in it,I found it really good.In Breaking News Stuff (www.stuff .co.nz/News) was top of the list.
On the right were matching feeds to Reuters, NYT and BBC.
Typing in "gardening" in the searchbox Blogline came up with some good links,eg 'About Gardening'.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hey Clipper

I think you are doing fantastically well! You make it sound as if you actually know what you are talking about - whereas I'm just winging it!

See you under the walnut tree

Hazel

This is my first post.

I have been so nervous about setting this up.
Do hope it works. It feels like I have spent hours on this computer!!!