Friday, December 21, 2007

Finding Feeds

I checked out all four of the recommended feed search sites. Feedster was down (I guess they were retooling). Topix wasn't very helpful to me, but I did discover a movement among Harry Potter fans to challenge media consolidation by searching for "independent media." A popular phrase they use is "Voldemedia"--clever! I also searched Syndic8. This was my favorite one. By typing in NYC events, I found some great RSS feeds for happinings in the Big Apple. Check out my blogroll at http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=monaleeislam&target=blankif you'd like to see. Just look under "Events." Finally, I tried technorati, and found some cool stuff, none of which supplied RSS feeds, though. From there, I became absorbed in my findings, and had a hard time pulling myself away. I did add a couple feeds from library blogs, namely, "radical reference" and "the shifted librarian." Check under "libraries."

One thing I don't understand is why my blogroll doesn't seem to point to the feeds themselves, but instead, points to the websites from which the feeds originate. It that supposed to happen?

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