‘Thin blogs’, RSS and ’social bookmarking’ at Declan Butler, reporter: "As a journalist, I want to keep tabs on a wide range of topics, including many that I’m not currently working on but will be at some point in the future (as well as subjects I’m interested in personally). I’ve around 200 or so RSS feeds, covering science journals, news, and blogs. That’s quite a firehose, but I find that with a few tricks it can be managed. And ’social bookmarking’ is one trick that really helps you to domesticate RSS, and quickly build over time what is basically a very large cuttings folder, which is easily searchable for those nuggets you came across months ago.
The ideal RSS reader has unfortunately yet to be invented, but I find Ro"
Monday, August 6, 2007
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