A Wrinkle in Tech

Courtesy of Kyle Wegner and Flickr's Creative Commons directory

Okay, okay…I have been humbled concerning my previous post about RSS feeds and blogging in general. I think my frustration and lack of perseverance came from not having a useful search tool for blogs and RSS feeds. Of course, many library blogs are linked to each other through blogrolls, but that is time consuming and tedious. I don’t know many librarians (or teachers for that matter) who have that kind of time on their hands or the patience to search for such elusive, albeit valuable, information.

So I started with Edublog award nominees and winners. I added The Shifted Librarian and LibrarianInBlack as a surfed, though I didn’t add the actual nominees or winners. I tend to look for practical advice, tips, tricks, and applications over rants and ramblings about library issues. At this point in my career, I don’t care much about the larger issues in our field, though I do advocate for them. I just have too much other stuff to worry about here “on the ground.”

Then I discovered the Bloglines search tool! Holy awesome! I LOVE it! All I searched for was “library” and came up with no less than three PRACTICAL library blogs I didn’t know existed: Library Web Chic, Library Grants, and LibVibe. Okay, so LibVibe is news, but it’s podcasted…which means I get it in five-minute sound bites. As a member of GenY, I like quick information. So now, I have no excuse not to stay up-to-date on the library blogosphere, because now I have Bloglines. And she lived happily ever after…The End.