W200 RSS Feeds

Ok. Back when we were creating our blogs for this class I somehow figured out how to add the RSS feed option to my blog. I knew it had something to do with subscribing to my blog but didn't fully understand what that meant. This week's assignment cleared all of that up for me. I decided to attach the YouTube video our instructor provided us so that my non-W200 classmate followers may learn as we did:

Our assignment was to create a reader using iGoogle, Yahoo!, or our blog and subscribe to five posts. I used iGoogle for the assignment because I'm obsessively picky about keeping my online accounts as organized as possible. Since our instructor mentioned we would use iGoogle for a future assignment I thought it would be a good site to "contain" this material. I did, however apply what I learned to my Yahoo! homepage, it now comes up with the latest news from defleppard.com. (smile)
I was surprised how many of the websites I bookmarked last week did not have RSS feeds! I thought, oh this assignment will be easy! Just pull up some bookmarks from last week's assignment and subscribe? Wrong. I had to search for new sites and blogs because most of what I bookmarked did not have feeds. I even bookmarked a site called Art Education 2.0 which is supposed to be all about how Web 2.0 propels Art Education......no feed. Bummer. Anyhow, my new RSS feed websites and blogs have been added to my delicious site. They'll be the ones tagged "rss."
I think using feeds will definitely be something I continue. The sites added for this assignment to the iGoogle account are still new to me, but in time I'll decide if they are sites I need to have constant update on. While "playing around" on my Yahoo! site looking for how to add feeds I did discover how to edit the content on my homepage. I can now read my facebook and Twitter updates on my homepage when I sign in. Like the feeds, its another time-saving application. That was not the first time an assignment in this class has lead to the discovery of other useful things!