Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Thing 3

I was really excited to learn about RSS, since it sounded like a great way to keep track of many websites in one place. I like the idea of having both personal and medical resources available in one location. I've already added my favorite news sites and some blogs that sounded interesting. I did some searches by entering hobbies into the Google reader add subscription box. Tomorrow I will try to add some medical journal RSS feeds. I'd like to use this to keep up with journals, hoping that by having easy, regular, and mind-free access to the table of contents will help motivate me to read more papers.
I spent about an hour and a half on this, mostly playing around and testing it out, but still feel like I need to play with it over the next few days to get a better hang of it. I found it easy to search for sites on the google reader page, but harder to just go to a website and click on the RSS icon and then figure out how to get it in to my RSS feed reader. Practice will help, I'm sure.
Webcinia looks interesting. I like being able to put in a desired medical specialty and then getting many (but not all) of the top journal TOCs. I need to spend more time looking at it too.

1 comment:

  1. I am glad you like RSS feeds. They are by far my favorite tool. You might be interested in Social Bookmarking as another way to get information on topics you enjoy. Nice Avatar!

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