Feeds Blogs and Observations

I have been doing a lot of exploring in the last week, and have a few observations. I have followed links to recommended blogs, only to find the most recent entry to be several months old. I have followed links to find that a blog has moved, and I need to follow another link, or sign up to another service to access the updated blog. I have signed up for a couple of RSS feeds and been bombarded with mail, and yet nothing at all from others. As with the rest of the web, blogs and feeds are a very mixed bag. If I sign up some feeds to my personal email, this isn't really such a big deal, but if I do that to the blog that represents my library service, then yeah, it actually is a bit of a deal. The process of blogging for your library, or in actual fact, your employer, is more than just chatting online and adding a couple of links. It can obviously be done as some libraries are doing it, I can only assume that they have flexible IT policies and some dedicated people doing the monitoring. My impressions this week haven't been purely negative, so I don't want to give that impression. What I have felt though, is that while popping up a blog for your library may be easy, it isn't simple.