Feed Your Read

• How many of you subscribe to this blog via the email link (and you already have swamped email inboxes)?
• Even worse, how many of you only come to this blog when you remember to visit the page?

At this point in time many of you have probably heard the term Web2.0. And I know that most of you have heard all of the “social”-ness of the internet, especially with social networking sights like MySpace and Facebook. What you probably do not realize that it is primarily RSS technology (Really Simple Syndication) that pulls all this socialness together. So what IS RSS?

Over the past two years I have tried explaining RSS to folks, students and faculty alike. Just recently I found the following video…watch it NOW!

Hopefully what this video helped you realize is that you can be reading about lots of information and still saving time. So go get a Google Reader account (it is probably easier to have a Gmail account first) and start feeding your read. Start by subscribing to this blog…and check out that you can subscribe to a few other NCTE blogs listed in the right hand column of the page as well. And to keep your read on, I will start introducing RSS feeds I think all the folks at reading the TYCA blog will find hip, fun, and possibly useful!