Feedfinders

I've been playing around with feedfinders over the last few days. I found, like everything, that they have some good and bad things about them. On Feedster I found that, like google, it has advertised sites that they give preference to. I found that a bit counterproductive.I thought that it should be about the best information availabe...but I geuss it's about money too.

I guess these tools are best used when you have a specific subject you want to follow. Having time restraints tended to hinder my searches. I found very few feeds when I searched one of my favorite authours, Johnathan Franzen, but I found plenty (of course) when I searched "Australian election".

I went to the ALIA conference last week and one of the speakers mentioned Yahoo Pipes. I had a look at that and it seems to do the same things as the sites suggested in this course but perhaps is a little more indepth, and prehaps more, err, difficult.

I think I need more time to look at all these new tools!!