#6 Lesson:
Palinet tutorial was great at explaining RSS feed and how to use it. It is interesting to see Browsers incorporating RSS feed, adding RSS was by just clicking on RSS feed/XML orange icon on the web page, and your browser does the rest. Saves you from having to login or managing two client programs. Nice. Modzilla and Opera is by far good ones to use for this activity.
Google reader tutorial was easy and the web appliation itself is easy to use. However, it requires login, sometimes when you surf the internet you don't feel like logging into account. The RSS feed directories provided in the lesson is American based and I guess we will have to wait for Australian based ones.
I myself have a Gmail account and within it it has webclips which displays headlines acts exactly as a RSS and you paste the RSS feed URL in the setting section. So far my RSS feeds are ALIA, IT stuff, Dictionary word of the day, and news.
#7 Lesson:
www.feedster.com, the link is no longer alive, as i get a full blank screen - oh well.
To subscribe to a RSS feed for a specific journal using Ebsco
1. Go to Ebsco ANZ Reference Centre
2. Click on NEW FEATURES
3. From this screen tick the ALERTS box. This will embed an RSS icon against the publications list (This part had lost me, as on NEW FEAT. page there was no check box to tick, anyways...)
4. Find a journal your would like to subscribe to (eg Australian Library Journal)
5. Follow instruction to put RSS feed into your Google Reader account
Overall I had fun.
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