RSS and Reading Blogs
Kris Roger & Jane Secker
Information Literacy meets
Library 2.0
3rd July 2008

Outline of session
• Introduction to RSS
• Finding Blogs
• Hands-on: reading blogs using
personalised homepages and news
readers

Finding Blogs
• Google Blog search
– http://blogsearch.google.com
• Technorati
– http://www.technorati.com/
• Yahoo also lists and searches blogs
by category
• Which is better?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/auntiep/17135231/

Finding quality blogs
• Intute (subject gateway) for selected
academic blogs in the social sciences
– Use the Intute advanced search and search by
resource type ‘blogs’
– Available at:
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