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"In this "technology hour" workshop we will cover the basics of what, exactly, RSS is (Really Simple Syndication), how to receive RSS news feeds and related podcasts, which news aggregator to use, how blogs fit in to the RSS picture, and how to create your own RSS feed."

"TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds."

"This is an excellent source of information about RSS, and includes directories, readers, blogs about RSS, etc."

article from BBC on what is RSS, how to use it, etc.

"browser-based RSS aggregator" "Netvibes.com is a customizable web 2.0 homepage solution...This service is free and gives you the user the ability: to create a personalized page with the content you like; to put together data feeds and services from web 2.0 applications with a very simple interface; to access your page anytime and from any computer

a community list of library related blogs with link ranking and stats

PDF version of a presentation given at Loyola University on November 3, 2005...discusses "how and why libraries should use blogs and RSS, especially to create community, encourage conversation, and make their web sites more dynamic."  found through Shifted Librarian.