Congrats! You have mastered the hardest discovery exercise. Now that you have a Bloglines account, you can start adding other newsfeeds that interest you. There are a few ways you can locate newsfeeds:
- When you are visiting your favorite website, for for the news feed icons that indicate the website provides it. Often a feed icon will be displayed somewhere on the navigation bar of the site. (Not seeing it? Check the bottom of the page, most blogs will display on the right or left.)
- Use Blogline’s Search tool - Bloglines search allows you to search for news feeds, as well as posts, citations and the web. Use the Search for Feeds option to locate RSS feeds you might be interested in.
- Other Seach tool that can help you find feeds:
- Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interest in.
Discovery Exercise:
- Explore some of the search tools listed above that will assist you locate some news feeds.
- Create a blog post about your experience. Not sure what to blog about? Here are some things to think about…
- Which method of finding feeds did you find easiest to use?
- Which Search tool was the easiest for you?
- What was more confusing?
- What kind of useful feeds did you find in your travels?
- Or what kind of unusual ones did you find?
- What other tools or ways did you find to locate newsfeeds?
- Which method of finding feeds did you find easiest to use?
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