Week 2 has covered RSS and personalised homepages. I covered this last year so see http://karenaitken.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/week-3-rss/ for my previous comments.
I really liked using Google Reader for my RSS feeds. I use it nearly every day. As the feeds are via my Google account, I can access them anywhere so I have set up both work feeds and leisure feeds. I can also set it to check webpages that don’t provide RSS feeds automatically.
Personalised homepages were also briefly covered last year see http://karenaitken.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/week-6-online-applications-and-tools/ and my opinion on them hasn’t changed. I never used the personalised page that I set up over the last year. At work, I have 3 tabs set as my homepage and I prefer this to a personalised homepage. Also, I can quickly access frequently used websites via shortcut icons on my toolbar.
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June 18, 2009 at 10:33 am
Jenny
Yeah I also really like Google Reader. I think a key part of using RSS is that it has to feel comfortable and part of your workflow. There also has to be a need for you to use them.
I tend to use netvibes to keep up with twitter feeds, news, friends facebook status updates, tube alerts and these kind of things. it’s also a useful way to put a whole load of RSS feeds in one page (though with the list i have i wouldn’t use it as the only place I access my feeds).
As with all of these technologies – sometimes they fit in with your workflow, sometimes they just don’t.
June 18, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Debbie Phillips
Yeah, I’m kind of an RSS junkie too – I wasn’t to start with, and then I realised that I didn’t have to read every single post, which helped a lot! But I do think that they’re not everyone’s cup of tea – I think you either find them useful or not.
I do have a netvibes page, but I don’t use any RSS feeds on there – it doesn’t work for me. I do use it for keeping an eye on facebook though.