Justin Beaty

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Thing #11 finding good feeds


Using a search tool like Technorati or Google Blog Search was easier than going to my favorite sites and looking for the RSS icon.  Some of my favorite site didn't have an RSS icon.  So the search tools were great for finding feeds that interest me.  

I think that Technorati is better than Google Blog Search (GBS) for finding blogs.  GBS just gives a lot of hits with the title of the last post as the search result with no information about the blog.  Technorati search results gives you information about the blog.  Also, Topix was great for finding news feeds.  I like how Topix automatically found my location and gave me local search results for things like news and entertainment.  By far Google Blog Search was more confusing.  The search results for blogs was full of blog post titles.  It was not very informative as to the author of the blog or what the primary focus of the blog is.  

I subscribed to an all-sciences blog, ZME Science, that had posts from all branches of biology.


From an article about the new anatomy of the human eye from ZME Science.

 It contained articles relating to topics that I will be teaching.  I also subscribed to Clarksville Online through the Technorati search tool.  I subscribed to this feed so that I could stay up-to-date on all Clarksville news, events, politics, and happenings.  I also used the Topix search tool to find feeds for world news, politics, and popular trends.     

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