The five feeds that I subscribed to are: http://bizarre-blog.travel.discovery.com/ It is basically a travel channel show, where the chef tastes unique foods. Its a pretty cool show.
Number 2 is, http://www.bonsaitalk.com/ Its a forum where people talk about taking care of bonsai plants, and there is also a photo gallery of plants. Number 3, http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/ Basically talks about unexplained stories, and mysteries around the world.
Number 4, http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/nfl/?track=rss A feed that talks about football related stories, injuries, stats. Go Giants! Number 5, is a news feed about the country of South Korea, http://www.topix.com/world/south-korea I have been interested in this country in recent years particularly relating to its food and culture. I found that adding subscriptions through the Google Reader account was the easiest, also the LA Times site was helpful. I did not like Technocrati at all. You know I might keep up to date with some of the feeds such as the football news and the unique foods one. I think the library could use, and most certainly they do, feeds that pertain to library practices such as Library Journal. There could be ideas that could help improve library services. Also subscribing to book review news, and getting an idea of what books to get for patrons. There might be feeds out there that pertain to what teens like to read as well. I think it would be a good idea to try a variety of news feeds that are popular, but also look out for the ones that are kind of low-key and underground because they might include good ideas as well. GK
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Library Challenge
The reason I took part in this challenge was to just experience something different. I have never really done a blog before. I hope to learn how to make a blog, and hopefully learn how to fully use web sites such as YouTube, and Wikipedia. So far I have found that it really isn't that difficult to set up a blog, I guess my concerns would be how to make it look more jazzy or whatever. I don't think that I would be a regular blogger, I mean I do have some interests that might be cool to write about, but I don't know if I could do it on a consistent basis. As far as the Arcadia Public Library, I think it can use blogs to tell people about upcoming events at the library or even put staff review of books they have read. They might also went to set up blogs on such topics as cooking, and they list titles of books that pertain to a style of cooking. For example a staff member could give a review of a restaurant they went to and then list books that the library has on that type of cooking, be it if they went to a Mexican or Japanese restaurant. So I think if the library did it on topics like that it would appeal to alot of people.
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