March 7, 2010

S401 Bloglines-News

I absolutely hate watching the news, and I'm not a big fan of sitting down and reading a newspaper either.  When I found I was able to access news stories on Blogline, I assumed that I would feel the same way, I would not really be interested in taking the time to sit there and scan through the news.  However, I have to say that, while I'm not in love with it, reading the news via bloglines is a welcome change to the other two methods.  It may be because I'm so used to using the internet, but I found it  much more convenient to just scroll through the stories and quickly decide what I did or did not want to take the time to read.  My two favorite RSS feed news sites that I found were BBC News and USA Today Books.  The BBC news was nice for getting stories about things all over the world, which I must prefer to something like a local newspaper where the majority of the stories focus only on the town and the immediately surrounding areras.  And even though I've always been a big fan of books, I didn't really expect to like the USA Today site; I had just never been interested in reading news stories about books-I wanted to read the book itself.  However, I think I am a convert becasue I really found many of the articles interesting, especially the article about how there is predicted to be a surge in the books that are plays on classic tales, like the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies did with Pride and Prejudice, which by the way, I wish they would leave classic tales alone.  Nevertheless, I am happy to report that the news RSS feeds were a welcome addition to my online time.

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