Sunday, February 16, 2014

Emerging Technology Pg. 123 -Feed Reader Assignment

So far, I've had trouble with the Feed Reader gadget on Blogger.  I could not find Google Reader, so I used Blogger's feed reader instead.  I went on several sites, but could not find RSS feeds on many of them, so I settled on the entertainment feed from CNN.  I also attempted to follow the entertainment feed from The Huffington Post, but I could not get the link to work with the Feed Reader gadget.  However, I have found that one benefit of using the feed reader gadget, is that it continually keeps you up-to-date on what's happening on the page you've subscribed too.  Another good thing about the feed reader, is that (from what I could tell by trying to set it up), it breaks different feeds off into their own sectors, so that users won't get the feeds mixed up.  One drawback of the RSS feeds on Blogger, is that the Feed Reader does not list the date or hour of publication for the feed items, so users can't tell how up-to-date their feeds are.  Secondly, if a user is not truly interested in every feed item on the page but likes the page as a whole, the feed could list unwanted items on the blog that the user may disagree with. 

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