RSS feeds

Well, this task has opened my eyes to the vast number of interesting blogs out there - library related and otherwise. It's a bit daunting really. Even adding them to the Google Reader - which is very easy to do - doesn't give me great confidence that I'll be able to keep up with and absorb more than a small amount of all that information flowing towards me. Still, I can see that gathering the feeds together in one place is at least a start, and I like the way that they can be organised into folders by topic. I've added the Reader to my igoogle home page, so that I can reach it easily. I had a look at the 2011 Salem Library Blog Award winners list as suggested in the instructions for this thing, and I've added feeds for a few blogs from there that took my fancy, including A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette , which made me laugh and also reassured me that others share my daily irritations and frustrations with minor things such as chairs not being pushed back under tables.
I was already an occasional reader of blogs like thewikiman and Phil Bradley's weblog and having now added them to my reader, I'm sure I'll be following them more regularly in future. I've found the latter blog very useful in the past for technical tips such as where to find free online pdf file creating services. 
Moving away from libraries, I've added some news feeds and various other things, and I also had a look at the pre-packaged bundles of blogs on offer. These are useful if you want to quickly build up a selection of blog feeds on specific topics, but I've found that the titles can be a bit misleading. I added one bundle, called SF, assuming that all the blogs would be about science fiction, but they turned out to be about San Francisco!
I think this is a tool I'll keep using long-term, but I think I'll have to restrain myself from adding too many feeds, as I think many of them would never actually get read!