The RSS feed is a marvelous invention! The ability to round up stuff and send it down the chute to my own corral is a great time saver. Combined with Google Reader these are handy features with lots of applications.
The 3 feeds that I subscribed to are:
1. NPR - All Songs Considered http://www.npr.org/rss/rss.php?id=37 Just nice to listen to something different sometimes.
2. The Krafty Librarian – a nod to my past life as a medical librarian. There is plenty of great tips and gems that help me keep up with the medical literature. These tips can also be applied more broadly to the general librarian population. http://feeds.feedburner.com/kraftylibrarian/OLay
http://www.gcast.com/user/davekees/podcast/main
3. Dave Kee’s Podcast for Students – this is a nod to my current librarian life on a campus that has a large segment of students learning English.
With an RSS feed, it is like having all my mail delivered to my home so that I do not have to go out and collect it. If my RSS feeds have stacked up and I do not get around to reading or listening to all that I have send to my Google Reader, I can just delete all the entries and start over.
Some good applications for an RSS feed include:
See works by an author.
Get new research on a topic.
Receive current journal tables of contents.
Find new articles that cite an important article.
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