CPL 2.0 and RSS Feeds

I was able to set up some RSS feeds, using both methods described in the CPL 2.0 blog. Since I was already logged into Bloglines, it probably made it easier to set up a feed from the actual web site, than it would have been had I not been logged in.

The process is pretty simple, the challenge will be selecting sites that give me information that is useful to me without swamping me with too much information. I can see that this service could be really useful (I was introduced to the concept during my pre-Internet library school years, but back then we called it SDI or selective dissemination of information), and I noticed that several of the sites on Bloglines 100 most popular list were book sites, or sites like Library Stuff and Librarian.net or book sites, which indicates to me that librarians like RSS feeds.

On the reading front, I've been reading alot of new children's fantasy during the past few weeks, and have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of what I've read. I hit three titles in a row that I've really enjoyed: Happenstance Found by P.W. Cantanese (first in the Books of Umber series), The Shifter by Janice Hardy (first in The Healing Wars series), and Bran Hambric: The Farfield curse by Kaleb Nation (it's likely to become a series, given the ending, but it lacks a series title at present). Bran Hambric has some echoes of Harry Potter, but the other two are quite original in their settings.