I rather liked this exercise. I knew a tad about RSS feeds but i'd never heard of newsreaders before. the tutorials were quite helpful, especially the video. At first i thought i wouldn't be able to find anything to subscribe to, but already i have 15 subscriptions, and that's without searching, lol.
I can already tell i'll use these in my personal life for things like lolcats & bands & books & other random stuff. As for work, i think bloglines be very useful while working on the myspace & facebook pages for keeping up to date.
I like that bloglines keeps all the blogs & feeds in one tidy place because i'm always finding blogs i like then forgetting about them. i also like how easy it is to add more feeds to your reader. the only issue i had was when i tried to add OPL's evanced RSS. It kept saying "There is a problem with the database. Please try again later" and "No feeds were found. Please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed" until i gave up.
i know OPL already uses RSS for events (which i love btw, it makes doing the myspace & facebook so much easier!) & closings. perhaps OPL could also have a newsfeed for press releases and things like that. i'd subscribe to that... if bloglines would let me! :)
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