Thing # 3--Set up an RSS account

Setting up an aggregator account on Bloglines wasn't too difficult, and I now have 10 feeds. Several of the feeds are my co-workers' blogs for the 23 Things on a Stick program, and the rest are primarily of personal interest--such as my local library's RSS feed and a few other blogs that I like to keep up on. I also have a few that tie into work, such as Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. We had a brief presentation at work by more experienced colleagues about using aggregators, and I was surprised to see how many feeds some people have! I can't think of 60 sources that I would like to be getting continuous updates from! Since I have so few sources, and adding to them would just increase my stress level, it almost makes sense to have feeds coming direct to my email, as opposed to using an aggregator. I just never remember to visit the aggregator, either. It just so happens that the ALA Direct e-newsletter for either the last week of February or 1st week of March provided a link to a great resource titled 14"Other" Ways to Make Use of Web Feeds . According to this article, SendMeRSS can take any feed and forward updates to your email. It checks for updates at least once in every two hours so whenever something new gets published it lands in your inbox within at most 2 hours. I'm going to try this system out and see if I like having feeds sent to my email instead of trying to remember to go to Bloglines and check what's happening in my aggregator. I'll update my blog with the results.