Merlin.lib.md.us (MERLIN) is a great site! It is definitely the place to cruise during random minutes to keep updated about Maryland libraries in today's world. Very nice to have everything under one roof! I subscribed to it on my bloglines account after I read another poster's description.
As for the other sites, I think that syndic8.com would be useful for avid bloggers -- or blog followers, especially as it is a community site. topix.net seemed a little choppy for me -- too surface maybe (do I mean shallow?) -- snippets of information.
All in all, I liked Bloglines.com best. I used the "200 most used RSS feeds " to get started. I then used Time Magazines "50 Best RSS Feeds" from Bloglines' front page.
As I said earlier, not being a big fan of blogs, I so far have limited my searches to newsfeeds with news. Chugging pell mell through the hands-on learning of all the new "Things" tools, while I can feel my attitude about technology changing emmensely, I haven't had time to digest exactly how I will end up evolving blog-wise.
It's been my experience that patrons age 30 and under are amost often computer connected enough to be blogging away with perfect ease already, probably with RSS firmly on board, while over-30's (way over?) are still in the process of making up their minds about the community, collaboration and computers connected merely to individual viewpoints and opinions.
It's been my experience that patrons age 30 and under are amost often computer connected enough to be blogging away with perfect ease already, probably with RSS firmly on board, while over-30's (way over?) are still in the process of making up their minds about the community, collaboration and computers connected merely to individual viewpoints and opinions.
Either way, the RSS feeder is worth demonstrating in patron classes.
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