While playing around with Google Reader, I found a "breaking news" feed from the School Library Journal website. Since I use SLJ to screen new book selections, it seems natural to include their news feed as part of a professional Google Reader portfolio.
A blog that I have recently taken an interest to is George R.R. Martin's Not a Blog, where the author discusses everything related to his writings, including his Song of Ice and Fire series and the upcoming HBO series, Game of Thrones. Can't wait! You see the blog here:
http://grrm.livejournal.com/.
I found the SLJ feed by doing a key word search using Google Reader. I found George R.R. Martin's blog via his Facebook page. In fact, Facebook seems very much a "reader" too, though more focused on social connections. But a reader nonetheless!
Finally, to be honest, I see readers and feeds being pretty useful to me personally, but not to my library's blog page. With an uncontrolled fountain of information flowing in, I think my students would become flooded with random information posts, many of which would likely not have any value to them. At least not within the context of the library. To that end, I can see myself monitoring feeds, gleaning out the good stuff, and then filtering that through my library blog as I see fit.
But I wouldn't just turn on the fountain.
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