Thing 5

I found it difficult finding blogs on the topic I was looking for using the blog search tools. It would be easier if there was a directory of some sort that shows you all of the blogs grouped by topic rather than typing in a few keywords. Subscribing was a little flaky as well as my browser kept getting hung up. Subscribing wasn't always the same for each blog too. At first I did not like the suggested way of using the Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet, it seemed like too many steps. But as suggested in the video, it was much easier once this bookmarklet was set up. I would like to use RSS in my professional life by subscribing to blogs made by my peers to see what they are experiencing and teaching. I did find several blogs listed under Jackie Campbell's blogline that I opened and subscribed to. I think it might be easier to find a blog of a fellow librarian, see what feeds they subscribe to and then see if any of those feeds would be helpful to me and add to my blogline. I think this might be easier than using the blog search tools, but I'm inexperienced and may just need time working with blog search tools too.