#9 Finding rss feeds.

Since I’ve already added my 10 rss feeds to my blog I don’t really need to search for any new feeds but I thought I’d have a quick look at the searching tools in the exercise. Overall I didn’t really like them.

I found ‘topix’ completely useless. It pretends to have some sort of Australian focus by opening on an Australian version of a home page but when you search by post code, which it says you can do on this first page, it finds all American results. I really didn’t like this tool at all. If I was interested in the fact that the Red Sox had won game 2 then this would be the site for me, but I just didn’t like it at all.

Google blogs was ok, it wasn’t too difficult to find my own blog, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to find others to look for. And it was easy to use and straight forward which I liked… unlike technorati. I had a quick look at this and just found the site too cluttered and not really user friendly. I think we look at this again later on in the program so I’ll give it more of a go then.

Feedster initially looked straight forward and easy to use but I found that the text under each search result would run off the end of the page. I’m not sure if that’s an error with internet explorer or if it’s a problem with the site. But I would probably use this site again if I was looking for a particular blog or podcast.

I had already found all my rss feeds before attempting this task and I found them quite easily through google. Perhaps google blogs may have been a little easier, but I think using feedster, topix or technorati would have just slowed me down. Overall I think the easiest way is to just look for the rss symbol on sites you visit and add them if you think it’s necessary. If I start searching too much then I could end up with too many feeds and I don’t want to waste too much time reading every single thing from every site that I’m interested in, then I might just stop using bloglines altogether. I already added two more rss feeds today when I come across a blog about the librarians tv show. I think that’s the best way to find feeds, or if I’m recommended a feed from other people, I don’t need to search and add my own.