Blogging the World of Work

Christian MillerReference, Instruction and Outreach Coordinator

Martin P. Catherwood Library

• Introduction

• Blogs

• RSS Readers

• What to look for

Welcome!

What are blogs?

• Short for “web logs”

• Provide commentary or news on a particular subject

• Link to sources on the web, these could be articles, videos, audio files, etc.

• Usually in reverse chronological order

Finding Blogs

• Google Blog Search – http://blogsearch.google.com/

• Technorati – www.technorati.com

• Ask! Blog Search – http://www.ask.com/?tool=bls

Blog Example

• Catherwood Blog:

https://blogs.cit.cornell.edu/catherwood

What is RSS?

• Really Simple Syndication• Makes Blogs into “Feeds”• “RSS Readers” quickly and automatically

determine if the feed has been updated• Collects all updates in one place

RSS Readers

• Google Reader – www.google.com/reader• Bloglines – www.bloglines.com• Litefeeds – www.litefeeds.com• Many, many more

Adding Subscriptions

• From inside the reader (‘Add subscriptions’)

• From the blog itself

Not Just for Blogs!

• Follow any web site with Page2RSS

www.page2rss.com

• Many web sites have RSS feeds

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.

What To Watch For

• Number of posts

• Date of last post

• Tone

• Political leaning

Thank you!

Questions?

Chris Miller

cjm267@cornell.edu