You Can Feed an RSS to Water but You Can't Make Him Think

I set up a Bloglines account perhaps a year ago, and have made much less use of it than I might have. Partly it's a matter of habit--forming the habit, that is, of checking my account regularly.

I suspect, with all the information out there--and is it a common librarian's tendency to be an information packrat, or is it just me?--wise use of RSS feeds includes being selective. It would be all too easy to end up with such an enormous wall of feeds that it would hurt your brain just to look at it. (Sort of like my approximately 33,000,000 Opera bookmarks before I fled screaming and started using del.ici.ous instead.) But I am thinking now that a very useful setup would include:

• Several of the blogs I'm interested in but forget to visit regularly.

• A couple of major news sites, especially sites such as the BBC whose content I'm not likely to encounter in the Tribune or on the radio.

• Some specialty sites that I really need to keep up with but often don't seem to find time to visit, such as Dewey RSS Feeds, the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA, and MARBI. 

Could RSS help me keep informed on what I need to know and filter out some of the stuff I don't need? Ya think?

Well, I'm going to try these ideas as I find time. And I might explore how I would go about setting up RSS feeds from The Cataloger's Burrow and the ever-nascent Flaming Catheads as well.