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EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online
This weblog focuses on locating, evaluating, discussing, and providing guidelines to instructional resources for faculty and students in higher education. The emphasis is on free, shared, HE resources. Related topics and news (about commercial resources, K-12 resources, T&D resources, educational technology, digital libraries, distance learning, open source software, metadata standards, cognitive mapping, etc.) will also be discussed--along with occasional excursions into more distant miscellaneous topics in science, computing, and education. The EduResources Weblog operates in conjunction with a broader weblog called The Open Learner about using open knowledge resources across a diversity of subjects, levels, and interests for a wide range of learners and learning communities--students in schools and colleges, home schoolers, hobbyists, vocational learners, retirees, and others.
        

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

I've found Bloglines the easiest to use among the free news readers. I'm recommending it for students and instructors who want to get started reading blogs and other rss feeds. Bloglines makes getting an account easy and subscribing to feeds very easy (you don't even need to know the full rss address). Joe

___ Here's information from the latest Bloglines Newsletter:

The Bloglines Update for 8/12/03

In this issue:

o We've Been Busy o Have a Blog? Increase Your Readership o Lockergnome! o Help Us Improve Bloglines!

-- Welcome! --

Welcome to the latest update report for Bloglines. We periodically send out these messages to update you, our users on new features and services. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, edit your Bloglines profile by going to http://www.bloglines.com/profile and change the 'Receive Newsletter' option to 'No'.

-- We've Been Busy --

Since our last Bloglines update message, we've added many new features and options. Most were suggested by our users. Have an idea on we can improve Bloglines? Tell us! See the end of this message for more information.

Here is a list of just some of the features we've added in the past couple of weeks:

-- Search You can now search over 750,000 blog entries from over 9,000 blogs. Too many? You can also limit searches to blogs you subscribe to. See http://www.bloglines.com/search

-- Improved Manage Subscriptions Screen Managing subscriptions in Bloglines was too difficult. So we re-worked the manage screen to make it easier to reorder subscriptions and add folders. See http://www.bloglines.com/manage

-- Combined Views Don't like clicking on individual subscriptions to view new entries? Group several subscriptions in a folder. Then, you can click on the folder and see all the new entries for the entire folder. You can also click on the 'Subscriptions' link at the top of the My Blogs page and see all the new items for all of your subscriptions. To add folders and move subscriptions, see http://www.bloglines.com/manage

-- Time Zones Not everyone lives on the west coast. You can now configure Bloglines to display times in your time zone. See http://www.bloglines.com/profile for more information

-- Easy Subscribe Bookmarklet It's easier than ever to subscribe to blogs with Bloglines. We have a subscription bookmarklet that makes subscribing to a blog as easy as a single click. See http://www.bloglines.com/help/easysub

-- Have a Blog? Increase Your Readership --

We recently added several new Bloglines subscription buttons. It is easy to include a subscription link to Bloglines on your blog. Your readers will easily be able to stay current with your blog without having to remember to visit it. The Bloglines crawler includes the number of subscribers to your blog with each feed request, so you will always know how many Bloglines subscribers you have. See http://www.bloglines.com/about/subscribe for step-by-step instructions.

-- Lockergnome --

Bloglines was recently featured as a Lockergnome Gnome Favorite. Thanks guys! If you haven't noticed, Lockergnome has a great RSS resource site, and you can subscribe to it using Bloglines. See http://rss.lockergnome.com and to subscribe, see http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://rss.lockergnome.com

-- Help us Improve Bloglines! --

We are continuing to upgrade and improve the Bloglines system. Our best features have been from suggestions by our users. Know how we can improve Bloglines? Tell us about it! Send us a message by clicking on http://www.bloglines.com/contact

Thanks again for using Bloglines and tell a friend about us!

The Bloglines Team
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