Required reading for this week

For this week, please read Jonathan Dube’s article, RSS for Journalists and look at his Bloglines links for journalists. Also read the Wikipedia entry on web feeds.

Today in class: Bloglines and Google Blog Search

Today in class I will introduce two tools that you can use in gathering information online:

• Google Blog Search
• The Bloglines feed reader

Please visit this link: http://www.bloglines.com/

At that site, follow the “register” link (in the upper right corner) and set up a subscription to Bloglines. You will need to check your email a couple of times for confirmation emails.

Once your account is set up, subscribe to our course feed by clicking the “add” button, pasting this URL in the popup window (http://newinfotechs3.wordpress.com/feed/) and filling out the form.

Finally, try subscribing to each of the weblogs (both group and individual) of the other students in the course.