I’ve just been visiting Blogsome.com, at the recommendation of someone I studied with who has quite a blog on all things RSS and librarysome. John Tropea’s blog is hosted with this Irish group, for free, on a very attractive platform with quite a few extras. There is one rather startling proviso suggesting that they can wipe the blog service whenever they like, which made me jump a bit. I would have seriously considered starting another blog there, but I’ve got quite enough happening at present – however it did get me thinking, what a lot of trust we invest in all this code and packets. I don’t know why I think paying for Typepad for my other blog means that they wouldn’t do exactly the same if they needed to, in fact I’ve probably agreed to something quite similar – must get some backups done this week…!!
John’s blog is full of incredibly useful evaluations and assessments of current awareness tools in the blogosphere and elsewhere, that he has picked up communicating with other librarians while working as serials librarian at the Australian College of Natural Medicine here in Melbourne. His focus on current awareness in library terms means he has a strong interest in everything RSS can do to provide current information FAST. One link he provided to a very useful looking RSS tool called Quicksub was something I picked up on my second visit. But the whole site is worth many visits.
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I was at blogsome then ended up at edublogs because there was no support for theme and other problems at blogsome (except for the one woman who was very good.) It simply took too long going all over the Internet to figure out the coding etc which I wasn’t interested in to begin with.
That’s interesting to know – I’m still coping with the fact I need a Flickr account to get network images in the sidebar here. But I understand that’s a problem with all Wordpress blogs unless you have them on your own server (i saw that at your blog, MP).
Thanks for dropping by.