Monday, September 15, 2008

Discovery Exercise #9 Finding Feeds

I thought that the Bloglines method was the easiest. Technerati seemed a little complicated. I searched for Hurricane Ike using Bloglines and got excellent information very quickly. It's a great index to your own feeds. Another method I used was to just think of some news sources I remember and add them.

Discovery Exercise #8 RSS

I think RSS has tremendous value for those using the internet. We have access to such an enourmous amount of information, the problem is information overload. RSS organizes and manages this information, making it more usable. This kind of technology is one of the most important areas of development today. We have the quantity and it's getting larger; now we need to organize and manage, and that's what this does.