Goin' to the Feed Store

Okey-Dokey. So today I have finished this week's RSS feed assignment by searching for and subscribing to a few more feeds. I found Topix.net to be the best tool, althought the Advanced Search tool didn't quite work as advertised. As with some libraries' OPACS, limits set in the Advanced Search are not always remembered or actually evident in your search results. I'm not saying I actually know any of these OPACS.

For myself I searched for some house rabbit blogs. There are many, of course, and I even found one about a libral librarian with a house rabbit: I can so relate! One of the great features of Topix.net is the ability to search by zip code. I set up an RSS feed to tell me all about news from my home town, Camden, Maine.

Since I'm doing this on work time, I also have to subscribe to some library-related fields, and I chose Libraryman and The Shifted Librarian in addition to the aforementioned librarian-with-rabbit.

I've enjoyed this week's task, although now I have subscribed to so many feeds I may never get anything else done in life but read feed. Oh well, after all, I *am* an information professional!

Feeding the Most Explosive Tongue

Today I am proud to combine this week's Learning 2.0 lesson -- RSS feeds -- with a Curiomanic Tidbit -- The Most Explosive Tongue.

I signed up for an account at Bloglines and I have subscribed to a number of RSS feeds. So far it hasn't worked as advertised in that I haven't found any little orange RSS buttons on the websites I want to be fed from. So, I feel a little lazy in that I've just added the URLs in to my Feed list. I haven't clicked any RSS buttons and seen XML code. Whatever works, I guess. I wanted to add a feed from my bro's YouTube site, but it didn't seem to be available. Maybe there is a way?

So anyway, in addition to adding feeds from my favorite blogs I also chose from a list of feeds suggested by Bloglines. One of these is National Geographic News: Animals & Nature which brings me to:
Today's Curiomanic tidbit:
According to the National Geographic News, "The giant palm salamander of Central America (Bolitoglossa dofleini) captures fast-moving bugs with an explosive tongue thrust that releases over 18,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle."
You may notice that this guy isn't exactly "giant", but when you can pack that kind of power, size really doesn't matter.

My tongue gets tired just from eating a double scoop ice cream cone.