Thing 8---is it 23 yet?

Man. Bloglines? Shouldn't I have realized that at the age of 22, I'm on the border of being a digital native and shouldn't have to do this course? Well, now I'm slugging through it, there's no stopping me now--but Bloglines? It's thanks to Bloglines' technical difficulties that I have the visual image of Mr. Blog. So, in case you were wondering, when I go crazy and start talking to my blog as if it were some 1950s school girl diary and had an actual personality instead of being a receptacle for my thoughts, this is what Mr. Blog looks like:And back to Chip in the regular section of this post that actually relates to Bloglines...

The people in charge of the Things wanted me to focus on the following bold questions while making this entry. So, for sport, let's pretend I just set up my RSS feed, instead of many moons ago. Great.

• What do you like about RSS and newsreaders?
  Oh man, oh man! RSS sure is swell. You know, minus the fact that the default setting makes it so that you have to open each post individually if you wish to read more than a paragraph or two.
  
• How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your school or personal life?
  Well, I can cut the crap like Vector scissors can cut a penny into a bottle opener (incidentally, if you have never seen this action, it might very well be worth the three hours of your life required to go to a Vector pyramid scam job interview to watch that. I'm not kidding. Do it. NOW!). If I want to get the best of the web and the blogosphere without wasting my effort for nothing and coming up with crappy posts I don't want to read, then I'll stop using Bloglines. But, if I did want to be able to look at the first paragraph of my favorite blogs and decide that today they blogged about crap I don't need, I can utilize Bloglines to the maximum and how.
  
• How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
  The first thing that pops into mind is having the programs and new releases and other public library items circulate in a blog that patrons can easily subscribe to and look at (or not) in their Bloglines.
  
• Optional: If you're up to the challenge, you can provide the URL address to your public bloglines account
  So, Thing 8 lied brutally to me. Either that, or this just goes to show how something involving web 2.0 can be dated within months. Depends on if you want to be nice about it. Whichever description you fancy, the screen shots and directions they listed on this public URL nonsense is not true anymore. If you have been following my 23 Things journey with eager anticipation, doing the lessons alongside me silently (like a stalking butler), then I will tell you what. I'll tell you where it really is. If you scroll down to the very bottom of your feeds, you will see a link that says Share. It's that simple. For real, see look: here's mine.