Thursday, December 2, 2010

"RSS" or "In which the Digital Ninja does not follow directions and then fails"

So I was completely naughty and instead of setting up a feed aggregator I put two feed widgets on the left sidebar of my blog. I already have a Google Reader account and I didn't want to create another account or add the TTP blogs to my existing account.

The first widget I set up was RSS for all of the blogs of the TTP participants. Piece o' cake! It will be great to keep up with everyone's blogs. Then I tried to choose a topic and find 8 related blogs. I decided my topic would be library humor because I am always espousing it as legitimate critique and discussion of the field (I am a dork). The problem was that I only knew of three library humor blogs off the top of my head and Google and Technorati searches didn't turn up too much else. At least not much else I was willing to put on my blog. I am somewhat saddened at the lack of quality library humor bloggery out there! Come on, folks! It's a funny profession!

Sidebars aside, I love my Google Reader account. That is, except when I visit and it says I have 1000+ posts to wade through. Why can't it just be honest and say that I have 3256 posts? I know Google can count that high. They are mathematicians! Also, when that happens, I have to deselect my feeds.