Thing 5

I really like the idea of RSS--having just one place to go to get information from lots of different places.

I had a few difficulties with subscribing to RSS feeds. The weblogg-ed site did not have the RSS button that the tutorial video showed. I went back to the site after I figured out how to do the bookmarklets and tried to subscribe again. It seems like my computer wanted to add it to the Favorites (bookmarks). It didn't ask me for my Bloglines account or anything. And the same thing happened when I tried to subscribe to the second blog (Warlick). I was using Explorer when these problems happened, and so I switched to Mozilla. Mozilla appeared to work like it was "supposed to" and asked me for my Bloglines account and I put it in the correct folder, etc...

I guess I still have a few questions about reading the subscriptions. When I looked at the weblogg-ed feeds in Bloglines, it wasn't the same stuff that was on the weblogg-ed page (it appeared to be older material). And it seems that once I click on the folder and read some of the posts/articles, I must read all the ones in that folder. Because when I click on another folder/subscription, all the posts/articles in the earlier folder/subscription I was in disappear.

And I have a few questions about the terminology that used: posts, articles, subscriptions, feeds, etc...

I will definitely be using RSS in both my personal and professional life. I can easily keep track of new blog posts from friends and family, get updates of news in my field, and even start to expand the field of things that I keep updated on since this seems to be a simple and organized way to stay up-to-date.