Sunday, October 18, 2009

Thing #11

I use Google Blog Search for my RSS. I like the look of Technorati, but from what I found this truly seems to be a listing of blog posts. I am very leery of accepting blog posts for information, as it is very difficult to verify the validity of the source. With Googl Blog Search, I am able to stream RSS from varified sources of information such as The Tennessean, The Wall Street Journal, etc. I can get directly to the source, which I prefer to be an established organization, rather than simply a random individual.
I find Google Blog Search to be farily easy to use. They have a descent tutorial tha tleads the user through setting up an account and getting started. It is fairly self-explanitory from there. I found Syndic8 to be more difficult and to not be laid out nearly as nicely.
One of the most useful feeds that I found is the TEA website feed. This will provide information regarding the educator association and any type of changes/upgrades to my contract with the county. I am looking forward to this feed.
On the Google Blog Search web site I was able to simply enter a topic in and the web site would search for it. It brought up several related topics, just like the Google search engine does. I was then able to choose which website or blog I wanted to RSS with.

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