Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Week 1: Blogging and RSS Feeds

This Week 1 Assignment is out of sequence as I initially wrote a blog about my 6 cats which I called "My 6 Cats", but since then I have been writing all my other blogs under "My 6 Cats Part 2". Sorry for the confusion; the blog was a really nice piece of literary work, but I have since realized that I have to write about my experiences with this course. So, here is my blog for Week 1.

I did set up an RSS Reader with Google Reader. You can link to it at
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/18080126814406984592 . I could not find the "shared" icon that I was supposed to click on. I looked and looked and looked and could not find it. I did a PubMed search that became a feed and got the Table of Contents feed from NEJM. I had some difficulty in doing the latter.

How could we use RSS feeds at our Library? We could subscribe to TOCs of various library journals. We could get specific PubMed searches continually updated. We could subscribe to feeds from various sites that we feel are relevent to our work (i.e. like jama.com).

Again, I am sorry that this is out of sequence.

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