Keeping Up With Blogs - Tips

from Richard's Blog Tips

Tip #1 - Use an aggregator

Blogs are much easier to read when using an aggregator, such as Bloglines or Google Reader. These free services allow you to read all of your feeds in one location (instead of having to visit each blog every day to find the new postings).

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Tip #2 - Read unrelated blogs
Subscribe to blogs that expose you to ideas that you would not normally be exposed to otherwise. If you're in Higher Education, subscribe to a k-12 blog. If you live in the US, subscribe to some Australian blogs.

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Tip #3 - Be Skeptical

After signing up for a number of blogs I decided I didn't want to invest the time necessary to keep up with the additional reading. I went to delete my aggregator account but decided to read the entries that had come in first. I found several ideas that were so helpful that I decided not to delete the account at that time. I returned about two weeks later once again to delete the - the same thing happened. Now every time I login to read my blogs I decide that I will delete my account if I don't find anything useful that day. I would invite you to do the same. 6 years later I still have my account.

The stuff you find in books

The blog forgotten bookmarks shows all the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things found in books at a used & rare bookstore. And, from that same bookstore comes handwritten recipes, a blog that shows recipes found when sorting through books.

Blogs for LIS students

100 Best Blogs for Library Science Students --you’ll find 100 of the best blogs a library science student can read. http://onlinedegreeprograms.org/blog/2009/100-best-blogs-for-library-science-students/

Public Library Blogs:

http://citesandinsights.info/civ9i10.pdf

Looking for blogs to read?

Feedmil is a search engine for RSS and Atom feeds based on the concept of the "Long Tail" (basically, small, obscure feeds have an audience as long as the interested people have a way to find them via search technology).

"Feedmil is a feed search engine featuring a spam-free, topic-focused search for a variety of feed types including blogs, microblogs, public and social media feeds as well as podcasts."

It’s a feed search engine with little slide levers you move to change your search results. So, instead of just entering search terms into Feedmil, you also select a popularity range, anywhere from the obscure to the well-known. By filtering your results by popularity, you'll be able to pare down a bunch of results that are presumably all relevant into the top sites on your topic, or some surprising ones you might not have heard of.

Sounds like a pretty neat way to find new blogs...

Blog Roll

• a whole new diane


• Alpha Consumer


• Around the World with AIGs Ken Ham


• Associates: The Electronic Library Support Staff Journal


• Chip Chick


• Classroom 2.0


• Consumer Reports: Electronics Blogs


• Consumer Reports: Money & Shopping Blog


• Donna Murray


• Endgadget


• Free Technology for Teachers


• Free Resources from the Net for (Special) Education


• High Techpectations


• iLearn Technology


• iLibrarian


• Infinite Thinking Machine ideas to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st century


• Instructify


• Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day


• Langwitches


• Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…


• LibrarianInBlack


• Library Garden


• LibraryBytes


• MOMENTUM


• Phyllis' Favorites


• Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women


• Primary Resources Links


• RECESS DUTY


• REMC Ramblings


• Swiss Army Librarian


• Tame The Web


• The Teacher List


• The Tech Savvy Educator


• What I Learned Today…
  
  Dictionary.com Word of the Day
  Wordsmith.org: Today's Word

Library 2.0 Challenge - SDSL blogs

Learning is Forever
Quynntessentially Me
eriwyn-blog
South Dakota Library 2.0 Challenge
Dakota Grown
Fabric And Books
SoDakMeylor
Day Trippers
Ms. Kitty
Kingdom by the Sea
PubPlace
The Game is Afoot
Plains Jane's Place
What did i get myself into??
disastercarol
Family Searcher
Three cats in the house
Birder1

SD Library Blogs

Brookings Library Teen Corner

Blogging at Briggs

Brookings Library News

Edgemont Public Library Communicator

Potter County Library

Rawlins Municipal Library

Sturgis Public Library--Sturgis, South Dakota

Library 2.0 Challenge - SD

Accepting 2.0 challenge
Batty for Books
Book Arts
bookbyer
booklady
Cheerful Bookie
dykstra2008
Freeman Public Library
gotbooks
Humphrey Dixon
ILL find a book
I'm Not Marian
June Circ
Letters and Fetters
Library using the 2.0 Challenge
Library
Library Class
Library clerk
Library Worker Bee
http://lizatthelibrary.blogspot.com/
lyricbookworm
M.I.A.
MaryLibrarian
Ms. Z's thoughts
Mustangs Media Center Musings
New Librarian Insight
New Tricks for the Older Dog
Notes from Marian the Librarian
NWRL
OFFWEGO
Prairie Librarian
Q at the library
Reading Rocks!
RunningReader
Serial Reader
South Dakota Book Woman
spokes and quilts
The Future @ Your Library
Wilde Librarian
SharonHenry
Myster Manor
Here it goes

treasurehunterthersia15
Bookworm1983
Brenda's Bookstand
Gregory Library
Hannah's Daily Grind
kblacklibrarychallenge09
lee's blog
jgrewing
Rock N' Read
Library Time
chitchat
Library 2.0 Challenge
Potter County Library
The Book Bag
dlueb
lines from the library
Musings of a Librarian
hotspringscrm
Faith Public/School Library
media and more
Slow Movin' Mama
country girl bri
Navigating L Space
netterscraps
Aberdeen Bibliovore Blog
Library Aurora
SDL2.0
Moon's Musings
Miss Nancy's Notes
Jan
Dogs and Chinese Food
Becky's Blog
Dakota Doll
Bad River Librarian
dariasdalliances
lw's blog
Rhema
Somanybookssolittletime
bookbuddee
Mitchell Tech Library
Novel Thoughts
Miss Information
Do They Ever Let You Outa This Room?
Down-Lo with A-LO
mi2old
Jenny's Summer Blog
The Timid Librarian
kay's blog

Web 2.0 blog

I found an interesting blog today called Go2Web2.0 blog. Here is a post from that blog - 39 web based tools that don't require registration


One of the tools listed is kwout. Kwout lets you quote a part of a web page as an image and then you can save the picture to Flickr, post it in your blog,....

RSS

A person sure could get carried away pretty easily with this. I set-up a folder for the library 2.0 challenge blogs, another for library stuff, one for wait-and-see. . . I can see how going to one place to see everything that's new could save time. Unless you went wild and subscribed to so many feeds you couldn't keep up.
I do like how you can save a post to look at later in both Bloglines and Google Reader. The only thing about them is you don't get to see the whole blog look; of course it is easy to click on the link to get to the actual blog.