RSS feeds

Hi Blog,

PERSONAL

Looking at the SLQ website this morning I noticed that the John Oxley blog has been replaced by a NEWSFEED column - this certainly alerted me to explore the RSS format.

PROFESSIONAL

Heard recently from a public servant friend that her IT dept. didn't like blogs because of some perceived firewall problem. Here at SLQ many blogs are essential to information sharing and the newsfeed supplies the latest news from blogs - for example John Oxley.

When I entered the AT OUR TABLE blog at the SLQ website the RSS feed was clearly positioned at the top right hand side and quaintly called RSS food.
As soon as I entered the newsfeed in the website there was a column headed "Syndicating our headlines" with the following explanation:
The State Library's web feeds are freely available for anyone wishing to display our headlines on their own website. There are no restrictions, but we ask that you display headlines only.

PROS
Obviously newsfeeds are the flavour of the month at SLQ - I think that it is useful to get the latest currnet info. from blogs in one spot instead of having to visit the different blogs.

SLQ is promoting the concept on its website with "Need some help with RSS?" so that the public get immediate and useful awareness training.

FREE NEWSFEED READERS
Not everyone will have a feedreader available on their browser and free downloadable software options can be installed on a p.c.

ok! over and out from newsfeedss/webfeeds/rss format and onto the next new emerged technology.