Shaky Egg

I am completely sincere in my praise when I say ‘Praise Jesus it’s FRIDAY!’

I am in a workshop today, and this is lunch time, so I can post.

It’s pissing down rain, as they say, a nice day to be *out* of my office and inside a cozy academic library, in the computer training lab specifically, learning how to use RSS/Feeds. 

I’m ashamed to admit that I had no idea, before.

During hands on time I even put a feed button on this here blog. How cool is that!  I’m syndicated! Or, am I? I’m still new at this.

I’d also like to create a news feed that would automatically bring up headlines relevant to shaky’s concerns. Because the subjects of my thoughts are so freakishly intertwined or eclectic, this requires some very careful choices of keywords.

Any suggestions? Words so unique that they can’t fail to bring up something truly interesting to me/us/you my readers?

I know it sounds like torture, sitting around trying to find just the right key words to bring up truly interesting and relevant news stories in a little aggregator on this blog. But have you forgotten? I am a librarian and that, if anything at all, is truly my thing.  Or, it’s one of my many things. It’s one of those things that maybe most people don’t think about that I do. Or that librarians do.

The  Big Question– what search terms to use, or what words to use to identify content quickly and briefly for retrieval later– has been around a lot longer than the internet… but I think it is simultaneously less and more of an issue now that we do so much through keyword, social indexing, and random surfing and so much less through print.

I am old enough to remember that these questions simply have absolutely no bearing on real life, and just how much of a *dork* thinking about this makes me. Or would once have made me–not sure. Probably dork then, dork now.

Well class is starting back, and the teacher is great so I don’t want to be disrespectful by continuing to post, so I’ll go now.