Here is a link to my Pageflakes Start Page:

http://www.pageflakes.com/islcteacherlibrarian/

Today I had an interesting experience and found that my netvibes start page saved the day since I had all my school pages on it.

For some reason I don't have the address of this course memorized as I usually just go to my bookmarks on my computer and grab it. Log in and move forward.

Considering the question, "What do you think of the idea of libraries creating public start page portals?," I think it's a fabulous idea! In fact, I created a fake start page for the Berkeley Public Library, where I volunteer. Here it is:

http://www.protopage.com/berkeleylibrary

password: berkeley

The start page is nowhere near complete, and doesn't look as nice as Dublin's (I wasn't sure how to insert buttons or images), but it's a start. 

Hi,

Here are the links to my public start pages.

http://www.netvibes.com/marypoupart#MyHome

http://www.bloglines.com/public/marypoupart

This was quite an adventure!

I work at an academic library and I will readily admit that RSS has a place and I look forward to teaching it.  But I think that it has to be taught and advertised to the appropriate groups on campus.  Faculty and graduate students often track a topic for a long time.  They may focus on something for multiple years.  Being able to submit one search in a database and allowing it to constantly churn out results is great.  The machine, in some ways, does the research for them.   We can all benefit from that type of time savings.

In what ways do you think that you as a librarian or information worker can benefit from RSS technology?

Of course, there are countless ways RSS technology benefits librarians.  Custom content direct to an inbox or RSS reader is an important advancement in the way information is distributed. However, I think one benefit for librarians that may be overlooked is the benefit that RSS provides librarians publishing for the profession. 

In what ways do you think that you as a librarian or information worker can benefit from RSS technology?

What do you think of the idea of libraries creating public start page portals?

My library has a rather busy and difficult to navigate home page and being a large county system there are many branches and a lot of information (which can be overwhelming) on the site.  Rather than wading through all of this information to find what is pertinent to one particular branch or area, a library portal just may offer a more streamlined approach.

To me the most obvious benefit is the ability to keep
abreast of what is being written and discussed in your field, being able to
pick out topics and follow discussions about them as well as contributing with

Hi all,

Here is my bloglines page: http://www.bloglines.com/public/lcunningham