a few more blogs I’ll be watching, and a note or two about RSS

The Curmudgeony Librarian and the Kept-Up Academic Librarian are being added to my more-frequently-read list. One thing I haven’t seen people mention lately about the benefit of reading content via RSS+aggregators is that it lets you skim. Now maybe this sounds crass, but I can access more content more quickly and filter out what interests me in order to give it a closer look, if I’m not doing the point-click-wait tango of getting 20 different web pages to load and render.

del.icio.us/jessamyn

Another tool that alll those chatty blogging librarians seem to be checking out lately is del.icio.us, a bookmarking tool that is striking for its simplicity, ability to share lists and [best of all] an ability to create your own authority control structures via a keywording system that becomes a set of hotlinked categories. I’m mostly using it presently for my “to add” list of links for librarian.net, and because I enjoy the URL del.icio.us/jessamyn.