Hi!
This week’s post is about feed aggregators. For people like me, who do not know exactly what they are, here you are the definition I found on Wikipedia:
“a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and blogs in a single location for easy viewing. Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates”.
Being an efficient and quick way to read blogs, I think they will be extremely useful during our English course. As a matter of fact, it was rather frustrating visiting my peers’ blogs regularly in order to find out weather they had updated their page to send them a comment. I am convinced that aggregators will help me to save much more time and to interact with my peers in real time. Sending them comments to their posts as soon as they publish them will enable us to exchange information simultaneously. Not only do I think that feed aggregators may simplify my life as a blogger, but I believe they are an added value to my IT skills. I am only afraid of the fact that, if I subscribe too many websites which have feeds, I will receive a huge amount of updates that would be difficult to handle, yet I suppose it is up to us to manage the use of feeds properly. Moreover bloglines gives you the opportunity to choose if you want to receive complete updates or just a summary of the posts. I decided to receive the full post for my peers’ posts, but just the summary of the news, because I think they are too long to read and if I am interesting in something in particular I can visit the website to find the complete article.
Subscribing to feeders is also a good way to ‘force’ yourself to read something in English every day and this could be a tool to learn more about the language of journalism (if you subscirbe to online newspapers) or the looser language used in some blogs, where accuracy is not highly regarded. Im conviced that, as soon as I acquire more confidence with bloglines, feed aggregators, Technorati and similar tools, I will become a perfect blogger. The thing that impressed me most was that many useful websites students at the University of Padua use regularly do not have any feeds. That is a non-sense, since it happens that a lesson is cancelled and if you do not check the website regularly you risk just to waste time going up and down in Padua. Needless to say, using feeders I will be no longer busy as a bee looking for new posts and that’s great!
On Thursday I enjoyed visiting many webpages of the most popular English and American newspapers. I started looking for feeds, but then I looked at the many interesting news. I noticed that there is a great deal of sites which have a section dedicated to job offers or to give advice on how to write a good resumé... But, once again I believe it is just an obsession of mine, since I have carved out plenty of time in the past few weeks to complete my CVs and write a short academic paper about this topic. I also explored the blogosphere and I have to say that it seems to me that I am a bit more acquainted with this new tool.
I wish you all a nice weekend and keep you constantly update without much effort with aggregator feeders!
Francesca M.
This week’s post is about feed aggregators. For people like me, who do not know exactly what they are, here you are the definition I found on Wikipedia:
“a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and blogs in a single location for easy viewing. Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates”.
Being an efficient and quick way to read blogs, I think they will be extremely useful during our English course. As a matter of fact, it was rather frustrating visiting my peers’ blogs regularly in order to find out weather they had updated their page to send them a comment. I am convinced that aggregators will help me to save much more time and to interact with my peers in real time. Sending them comments to their posts as soon as they publish them will enable us to exchange information simultaneously. Not only do I think that feed aggregators may simplify my life as a blogger, but I believe they are an added value to my IT skills. I am only afraid of the fact that, if I subscribe too many websites which have feeds, I will receive a huge amount of updates that would be difficult to handle, yet I suppose it is up to us to manage the use of feeds properly. Moreover bloglines gives you the opportunity to choose if you want to receive complete updates or just a summary of the posts. I decided to receive the full post for my peers’ posts, but just the summary of the news, because I think they are too long to read and if I am interesting in something in particular I can visit the website to find the complete article.
Subscribing to feeders is also a good way to ‘force’ yourself to read something in English every day and this could be a tool to learn more about the language of journalism (if you subscirbe to online newspapers) or the looser language used in some blogs, where accuracy is not highly regarded. Im conviced that, as soon as I acquire more confidence with bloglines, feed aggregators, Technorati and similar tools, I will become a perfect blogger. The thing that impressed me most was that many useful websites students at the University of Padua use regularly do not have any feeds. That is a non-sense, since it happens that a lesson is cancelled and if you do not check the website regularly you risk just to waste time going up and down in Padua. Needless to say, using feeders I will be no longer busy as a bee looking for new posts and that’s great!
On Thursday I enjoyed visiting many webpages of the most popular English and American newspapers. I started looking for feeds, but then I looked at the many interesting news. I noticed that there is a great deal of sites which have a section dedicated to job offers or to give advice on how to write a good resumé... But, once again I believe it is just an obsession of mine, since I have carved out plenty of time in the past few weeks to complete my CVs and write a short academic paper about this topic. I also explored the blogosphere and I have to say that it seems to me that I am a bit more acquainted with this new tool.
I wish you all a nice weekend and keep you constantly update without much effort with aggregator feeders!
Francesca M.
Hi Francy,
RispondiEliminaI perfectly agree with you, as since I use bloglines I need less and less time to see when you and the other Francesca update your blogs. I think that we have to focus attention more on the quality of the feeds we look for, than on how many feeds we have. For this reason, I am more interested both on feeds of English and German radios,and on feeds of German and English nerwspapers. In my view, these will help us to learn something more about politics, economy, fashion, music and at the end of this second semester, we'll be proud of our computer and language improvements. As far as your language is concerned, I think your English is really excellent. If only, I could write as you!!!