Friday, January 4, 2008

Thing 9 - RSS Search tools

Which method of finding feeds did you find easiest to use?
  • I love the EduBlog awards as a jumping-off place. I've found several good feeds that I am now subscribing to from those awards.
  • I find most of my feeds as links from feeds I already subscribe to
Which Search tool was the easiest for you?
  • Feedster was down when I went there so it was pretty easy to use (ha)
  • Discovery Education is a great, easy-to-use resource
Which was more confusing?
  • Bloglines returned so many options that I could have gotten lost for hours with only one search. I need to learn how to be more specific, I think, if that is going to be a useful tool for me.
  • Technorati is also great for finding lots of info. I know a lot of folks use the Technorati rankings to determine how they are doing in the blog world
What kind of useful feeds did you find in your travels? Or what kind of unusual ones did you find?
  • I found a couple of feeds with book recommendations. I can see that Amazon.com giftcard going to use very quickly
What other tools or ways did you find to locate newsfeeds?
  • I like the NYTimes, Slate, and the Chronicle feeds
  • My husband and I regularly send interesting feeds/posts to each other or post them for each other on del.icio.us