Thing 5

This course is definitely captivating me. But I must say, this segment was the most challenging for me. Setting up an RSS site definitely has huge potential to help organize and keep me current with posts in a timely manner. I can see that the "end-result" of the reader will be very useful. Maybe my computer needs an upgrade to handle all this information/processing.
The tutorial on the 3 methods was clear and made sense. Unfortunately, I had great difficulties with making the "sub to bloglines" work on computer with the video tutorial. The steps to make this tab work and the end result did not match with the "links" to add to favorites. I had to do a fair amount of experimentation to get the end result......But ultimately I was successful.
I had mixed results with the blog engines of Google and Technorati. I had better success with Google--I was able to find blogs of interest and establish links. With Technorati, I had more problems especially with finding results for speech therapy in schools or speech language pathology as a topic. I have not figured out how to navigate searches and then add to my reader and then get back to my search engine results without having to start the search all over again(Sorry about the "run-on" sentence). I tried multiple tabs to operate on my computer but had problems with my computer processing.
I am having some difficulty with setting up the reader. My search sometimes brought up web pages versus blogs--some of the blogs I came to I could not get an address to link to by bloglines. The blog searches came up with individual blogs regarding a topic, but when I tried to link to the source of the main blog, I had some difficulties.
I guess the more I use my reader and add links, I will get more versed and better in setting up links. This segment definitely took a lot of time to navigate and get established. But I feel that I have made some concrete progress in getting more organized and to ultimately use this for future enrichment. Thank you, Gregory Jacoby