RSS - grrrrr

Surprise, surprise . . . once again I navigate through the RSS lesson right up to the add this blog and then . . . brick wall. Thanks Melissa for the hint to switch to Firefox. Someday I'm sure I will be able to do the final step without a multitude of naughty words spewing from my mouth -- today is not that day. I checked out three areas in the 100 best sites for school librarians. The first area was technology, a brave but unlikely choice for me. The one I really liked was Bright ideas for educators. there was a lot of good information about digital technology and tutorials. there were also several links to webquests and creating webquests. Surprisingly, this is one blog I may follow because it was technology that I could immediately use and much of it presented at a level I could comprehend. Under reading my favorite was called 3000 books. A young woman from Australia figured that if the average Australian woman lived to the age of 83, then she had 60 more years of reading ahead of her. If she reads 50 books a year, then she will have read 3000 books when she dies. She blogged about the books she has been reading. I wasn't familiar with many on the first few pages, but the idea of choosing carefully intrigued me. Especially if I use her math, I only will be able to read 1000 more books -- scary thought. However, My goal is to read 50 adolescent books a year in addition to the adult books I read, so maybe I have more than 50 reads left in me. It does make me reconsider rereading old favorites though. In the librarian section, I did not find any that appealed to me, but librarian.net had a link to an ask.reddit site that looked like it had possibilities. I'm still not convinced of the usefulness of blogs from people I don't personally know. I am most interested in book reviews and I tend to stick with people who have opinions that I can relate to -- even if my opinion is always the polar opposite. I guess if I spent more time comparing my opinion to common books that I have read with the blogger, I might begin to feel more trust in the reviews. Usefulness in a school library??? I think most blogs would be blocked, so an RSS would mostly be for my personal use.