RSS or RFF?

RSS or Really Frustrating Feed experience? Sorry to complain, but I've really had a hard time figuring out everything with RSS. I do feel slightly better now that I know more about it, but the bitterness is slightly lingering ;)

Nevertheless, despite my small meltdown, I did find a few blogs that I would like to follow. A couple of things that I looked for were that the format was easy to use (not too busy), that the information looked interesting to me, and that the person/organization behind the blog updated it often (it's little use to me if they only update it once a month).

One blog was from the "10 librarian blogs to read in 2010," and it's called "The 'M' Word - Marketing Libraries." After looking through some of the others, I decided that this would be one of the more useful ones for me because of two reasons: first, librarians need to really put themselves out there these days and she seemed to have some really good ideas; second, she also had some technology based ideas and obviously knows what she is talking about to a certain extent since I'm viewing her blog-and after my previous venting, it is very obvious that I am not a technology guru-wait, scratch that, I'm not even technology proficient.

The second blog that I plan on following is "The Unquiet Library: Not Your Mother's Library. Your Library." Although the blog could use a slight visual makeover, I do love that the creators of this blog post tons of videos. Videos are a great way to see something in action and to really involve the students and get them interested in visiting the blog and coming into library. I also really like the title and premise of this blog: that their library is different than the stereotyping librarian-shushing library. And, of course, they update it regularly with detailed posts! I think it will be a great asset and be fun to boot!