Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Thing 4

I thought I would be ambitious and try out both Flipboard and Zite on my device. Admittedly, I was very skeptical of the idea of a personal magazine. After playing around with the format and content, I wouldn't describe either one as a magazine. I did quite a bit of blogging and reading during graduate school. To keep up I used an RSS Feed (the newly departed Google Reader, R.I.P.). To me Flipboard and Zite remind me of a more engaging RSS Feed. That being said, I think I would have done a lot more reading of classmates blogs if I had either of these apps in those days.

Now, I haven't done a lot of streamlining of the articles coming to me on these apps, but I could really see the value of reading/discovering articles on public librarianship in that way. Does anyone have a tip on retrieving those types of articles? I know of one really good discovery tool for library-related news, Library Link of the Day.