This image attracted me becasue it is rather hypnotic, pretty, and hints at the notion of interconnectedness, which is what social networking is about after all.
RSS Feeds
This was fairly straightforward to organise. It turned out that by creating a gmail account I had already subscribed to many more feeds than I can comfortably handle. I have some concerns about them: the rate at which they accumulate is frightening and I would be very interested to learn how to remove the older entries; graphics and photos do not appear in all RSS feeds; and many sites do not yet support this new technology. I have tidied up and deleted a few subscriptions. [Subscribing to BBC news feeds is fraught with danger as it links to news services from around the globe, not just the BBC's service.] A colleague has alerted me to a facility within Explorer which directs feeds to the toolbar on the display page. This seems a very efficient way to access the feeds at my work desktop. My home computers use a different browser, Firefox, and it too offers RSS feeds links on the opening screen.
I would certainly recommend RSS feeds to our students.
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