XpRSSive!

Hooray for the continued bastardisation of the English language, break those grammatical boundaries and make not only your own words, but your own sentence structures!

OK opening joke complete, onto my exploration of the world of RSS. As my previous post may suggest, I'm quite the music nutter, and am often trawling away in hoping that the net will yield up the information on my favourite bands and any current releases that may be coming forthwith! So I figure there must be of course an RSS feed that surely will fuel my desire for such data. I was quite happy to see that Rolling Stone and JJJ have these, as well as JJJ offering pod casts too!

However, when I decided to delve deeper and actually look at the information posted in the news feeds, they often led me to websites that also looked like they had gotten their information from somewhere else, perhaps another feed from a website. Which of course leads me to wonder how many feeds have been, well, fed this information already, perhaps rephrasing the information (or translating) and how much of the information has degraded along the line.

Also, having at the rather wide but at the same time very narrow interests in certain types of music, I found it hard for any one service that catered to my needs. But there is a wide wold of RSS feeds to explore, perhaps it still eludes me! The hunt is on!

Freaking thing

Neil's acoustic guitars, originally uploaded by *hoodrat*.

OK so after many trials and tribulations, Ive finally go myself some serious linkage of a photo, complete with original credentials! The only real issue that I came across was the actual description of how to enable my two rival factions to peacefully interact and share their wealth of knowledge to better society, or to put it more succinctly to give blogger access to flicker. Yes it did say to go to Google to giver permission, but I felt the directions were rather murky (the page you end up on, sheesh!). As for searching Flickr I figured that most of the pictures would be copy protected (alas, twas so) so as per usual advanced search is my accomplice in completing this week's mission. So here is a lovely photo of one om my music heroes Neil Young's guitar collection, I'm sure when I make my millions I will have at least 3.

Also here is a link to one of my favourite bands frontmen gettin all frizzy n fired up in my hometown! Go the Drones! Woot! http://www.flickr.com/photos/snelvis/430845023/

More to come as per scheduled!

Keith

The wide world of blogs?

Well, I feel that even with a world wide web to catch these elusive blogs, I'm fairly sure some are going to fall thorough the cracks that riddle my attention span. A quick inspection of technorati found 11620 blogs related to the word library, which I must say in itself is something to be chuffed with that my fellow contemporaries are hard at it, it is a rather bewildering task to sough though.

So being me I started at blyberg.net, the first on this illustrious list. Perusing the pages available I really liked the work he was up to, and whilst embracing the new tools available in 2.0 was not hesitant to run his keen eye of critical analysis over the social networking aspects and the perils of falling to hard on such tools as saviors to Library land. Of course there is my own analysis of how many blogs consist of this information on information, with my very own comments adding a third step in the process from published work to private opinions (well, more like public in this forum, one of the many trepidations of my aloofness in online excursions). But I'm too inquisitive to stop now

Keefe.

The post that hurts the most...

Is of course the first post, and where to start! Even for why I am embarking on this task? how to Describe it? is it an appetite or a thirst for new knowledge that I write this blog? With virtually endless opportunities for style and content, I have decided to dedicate my blog to the actual experience, my views on the social aspects of it, and how I'm going to incorporate this technology into my online persona.

Whilst I am a regular users of computers and the web in general (especially when it comes to tracking down hard to get out of print Cd's from bands I'm hopelessly attracted to) I have rarely ventured outside the comfort of my email inbox. I must admit its not been though my fear of new advancements in online social networking, more so that I've always seen myself as a traditionalist in human face to face contact, or even pen and paper! So I figure that its high time that I hopped on board and take the journey with you all, and even if I don't take it under my wing, at least I can say I've rubbed shoulders with it.

Keith.