Thing 3 -- and a jolly good time was had by all

This assignment certainly got the juices flowing!  Miss Shelved spent many hours and  visited some fascinating sites.  Who knew librarians were warriors?  or avengers?  or "shifted"?  It seems everyone has a good deal to say.  Again, the prompts are as good a way as any to get one's thoughts in order.

• What does Miss Shelved like about RSS and newsreaders?  The Vienna newsreader has been on our dock for a while now, but little effort had been made to personal the datastream -- which makes it rather useless.  This assignment was a nice little push.  We tried Google Reader to make a change (though Vienna is rather easy to update as well). Time will tell how essential it may become, but the key is finding the right inputs.
• How might we use this? Once anyone finds the right sources for news, views, tips & tricks -- which is to say, finds the right community (what Web 2.0 is about, after all?) RSS feeds have to be the way to go.  In fact, during her peregrinations, Miss Shelved found a wonderful site for children's book bloggers, called "Jacketflap" -- and was most annoyed to find that it did not offer an RSS feed.  We may need to put a bee in that webmaster's bonnet.
• Which search tool was easiest?  Familiarity is always soothing.  Google searches certainly provide that.  Clearly there are some drawbacks to accessing all one's services at one point, but there are navigational advantages as well.
• Other ways to locate feeds?  One's fellow 23 thing bloggers had some lovely ideas.
•  With all the postings from ALA going on at the moment, it is difficult to tell which sites have ongoing substance.  One of the worldwide websites that looked intriguing turned out to be defunct, no new posts for over a year.  Miss Shelved will try to nod in frequently on her current selections and comment again in a few weeks.