News feeds are a great way to get ideas for articles, stories, characters, scenes, and other creative situations.
You'll be reviewing, cleaning, and organizing your Bloglines account. Hopefully, you've been checking in for updates to the blogs you've set up an RSS. If not, now's probably a good time.
To complete Thing 15 you must:
A. Subscribe to a news feed
B. Subscribe to a tag feed
C. Clean up your feedroll
D. Reflect on Thing 15 on your blog
News Feed
In addition to blogs, you can subscribe to news feeds. Using one of the subscribing methods covered in Thing 5, subscribe to at least two news topics, selected from the news feeds available on the following sites. There are a number of feeds based on news topics at each site. Add the feed you want to your account. Most of them may need you to copy the feed address to paste into your account.
Reuters
Yahoo News (Try Oddly Enough)
US News & World Report
Detroit News
Detroit Free Press
New York Times
Subscribe to a tag feed
Next, it's time to add some feeds to your Delicious account. Watch this video 1: Tag Feed
Clean Up your feedroll
Now it's time to do some clean up. This video will give you a start on the process--Video 2: Clean Up
Reflect - Blog Prompts for Thing 15
Is RSS becoming easier to understand? Do you recognize new benefits of using this tool? Do you remember to check your feeds regularly? Has it become a habit (or obsession!) yet?
--Return to the Writer Thing List
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