Week 5 - RSS Feeds and Custom Homepages

For this unit I opened an account with Bloglines. I gathered a number of sites: library based blogs and newspaper sites. I got some additional ideas from the sites that I had bookmarked. I was intrigued by the list of favorite feeds prepared by Bloglines and the ways that this service makes it easy for subscribers to locate feeds of interest.
Public libraries could use RSS feeds on the library's homepage to help patrons access popular blogs and also to promote the use of blogs on topics that many patrons are interested in, such as financial or social based feeds. In this way patrons could become aware of new blogs and feeds, and patrons could also suggest to the libraries additional feeds to subscribe to. A public library or school library can use a place within the library's home page to host various feeds of interest that patrons can access from the library or from home.