RSS readings

I've been subbing at FCHS, and I did some of the readings while I could. This means that I'm doing the readings slightly out of order, and as time permits (during lunch and prep periods).

I've read the RSS section, and there are some things about it that were interesting.

I've seen the "feed" button on blogs before, and this includes on sites I've managed. Strangely, I've not really used the feed before. I had clicked on the feed, and I've taken a look at the XML, but I've not really used it. Partly, this is because I don't follow any blogs on a regular basis.

The sites that I've used before were corporate sites. In one case the organization was actually a not-for-profit that was international in nature. It would have been a good candidate for using blogs on an on-going basis, but it didn't (and still doesn't). The tool that was used to create the web site is one called Drupal. The Drupal tool allows for blogs and other interesting things.

The Drupal tool allows for most any number of people to cooperatively add and edit a site, and it allows for each user to maintain a blog. Each blog and several other sections of the site have an automatic feed that the tool provides.

As for the blogroll, I suppose there are some sites that I looked at occasionally, but I never really was concerned about whether I might miss a posting. There was one site that I looked at occasionally, and it was even mentioned in the book: "A List Apart." I browsed the site during lunch or after work on days that I had a meeting. In those cases, I wasn't necessarily concerned with what was "new." And in some cases I intentionally looked for articles on a particular topic. It just depended.

I'll need to think about the blogroll for future reference.