Well, this has certainly been my least favorite "thing" so far - and the most frustrating... perhaps because I have very limited prior experience using RSS feeds... I'm not sure. I don't really follow blogs, and I prefer to just visit sites that I want to be updated about, so this has never seemed like a tool that I would make use of.
As per the course activity directions however, I did sign up and create a dashboard on Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/privatepage/1#General) and played around on that for a while. Using the Netvibe search bar, I found and successfully added "YA Books Central" (http://www.yabookscentral.com/blog/latest ) to my Dashboard. However, I was not able to figure out how to add an existing RSS feed from a site I was on. I went to www.slj.com and clicked on their RSS feed icon, but could not figure out how to get it to save to Netvibes.
Additionally, my computer didn't seem to cooperate, or I was dealing with firewall issues, because every site I clicked on the RSS feed icon for, I kept getting error messages that no reader was installed - I didn't see an option for adding the site or blog to my Netvibes account.
Overall, an exercise that reinforced my reluctance to delve into the world of RSS... happy to be moving on to Thing 5.
I read a lot of similar comments about RSS, but I have to say that I love using Feedly! https://feedly.com
ReplyDeleteHmmm... maybe I'd like that one - I'll try to check it out one of these days.
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