I Just Don’t See The Point

Like a good 23 Thing-er, I’ve signed up for RSS feeds.  I’ve done this once before.  I was getting feeds through one of those things we had linked on our website.  I don’t remember what it was called.  Something about a turtle or a frog or a lizard.  Anyway, I checked it a few times and looked at a couple things, but quickly gave up on it.  It seemed to me that RSS feeds were for the very laziest of web users.

I mean how much energy does it take to click on a link in your favorites list?   But, in the interest of winning prizes that may not exist, I signed up for Google Reader.   I chose that over Blog Lines because I have a Gmail account and thought that would make things easier.  I was wrong.  Google reader is a mess.  You are encouraged to subscribe to “bundles” like News, Sports, “Fun” and so on.  My bundles included such useless-to-me feeds as BBC Sport, Pittsburgh Steelers News, the Cincinnati Enquirer and various “funny” video sites. 

   

Getting rid of the feeds I don’t want is not as easy to do as it should be.  Actually, I’m not even sure I can do it at all.  There must be a way, but I haven’t been able to find it. 

The selections for library feeds is rather pathetic.  There are lots for individual libraries and a few rather vague general sites.  I signed up for something called Library Stuff (I’m the 400th subscriber–maybe I’ll get prize for that), one for Cleveland Public Library (I’m only subscriber number 4???), the Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette (every bit as snarky as it sounds) and something called Dynamic Drive Library (which I picked just for the name).   I’m not sure how useful any of them will be, but the options are rather limited.

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