Sorry, NEFLIN for not numbering my posts. I will strive to be less inconvenient. These news mining operations have their uses. In practical library terms one would be updating programming information. The connected could crank up the device and find out that Toddler Time had been cancelled or the yoga instructor could not be untangled from an asana and not waste time getting dressed and dealing with parking. This is not a bad thing in a time-pressed age and might cut down on the number of patron complaints. Library Board minutes could be made publicly available quickly, etc. For myself, I don't know. As may be observed elsewhere, I don't trust blogs. I want to know who those people are who are clicking away so authoritatively. Do they know what they are talking about or are they merely talking rot in an authoritative manner? Anybody who's googled anything to try to get a solid answer for a patron knows that there are many authoritative-sounding sites that are quackery, fraud, or crackpottery even worse than talk radio. Lots of the latter are blogs. As far as aggregating news sites, I don't find it necessary at the moment. I visit several daily, and have them bookmarked. I know what I want out of them and where it is, even when the front office has decreed a layout change. The thought of being chased around by several giant news organisations gives me the vapors. It's nice to know that if I ever wanted to, there's a fairly simple way of doing it.
A thought: Has anyone noticed on these things how easy it is to get into them and how hard to get out? Listservs generally have a message that tells you how to unsubscribe, but I haven't seen any easy way out of RSS or other feeds. Or for that matter a blog.
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