RSS - Real simple!

Adding 5 RSS feeds was surprisingly straightforward. I like keeping up-to-date with current affairs and what's in the news and thus chose to subscribe to ABC News and PerthNow. The story of the twin girls from Victoria being shot in the head really saddened me and I am very curious to see how it unfolds. There is a lot of mystery surrounding how they were shot and by whom. As a mother of twin girls myself, my heart goes out to their parents who are on their way to Colorado.

I read the columns by Susan Maushart, Danny Katz and Mia Freedman in the weekend papers every week and thus subcribed to Susan Maushart (Google) and Femail (Mia Freedman's blog). Interestingly, Maushart,  Katz and Freedman all wrote about technology in their columns this week. Maushart was dreaming of days gone by when we did not have PIN numbers (or usernames or WEP codes or account IDs). Today she has passwords for online banking, health insurance, library membership,eBay, PayPal, iTunes and a collection of online stores. Katz wrote a humorous column that described a new disease he calls "Technus". Technus is where you become so reliant on technology that if it stops working part of you stops working too. Symptoms include feeling feverish and getting sympathy pains for your computer! Mia Freedman wrote about the difficulty parents have getting their children off Facebook. Freedman refers to the "time-suck" aspect of social media (one of my big concerns) and questions why everything has to be so "public". (i.e. "Welcome to Facebook, the fishbowl of life.")

I also subscribed to the YPS Librarians Blog which is one I keep up-to-date with for all things associated with being a children's librarian, such as storytime sessions, CBW, recommended reading, WAYRBA, Better Beginnings, resources, reading lists, early literacy, etc.
And of course Cockburn Libraries was an essential addition as a loyal, devoted Cockburn Libraries Librarian!

"Laughter is the best tech support"