Whew!

I thought I was a fish (pisces) but maybe I'm a dog, because I'm starting to think I'm one of those creatures for whom new tricks are, if not impossible, at least very difficult. After viewing the videos (the one the AIT team linked us to and the one done by the cute google engineer) as well as reading the online instructions I thought I was all set to start subscribing to rss feeds. Signing up was a snap--though I didn't get the email confirmation referred to in one of the presentations. I decided to try three websites I visit occasionally as my first three feeds, but none of them offered a rss option and cutting and pasting the url didn't work either. Then I decided, what the heck, I'd just pick from the AIT list so I picked Adventures in Technology as my first subscription and then the troubles began. Nobody warned me I'd have to choose from a drop down menu which said "Subscribe to this feed using....." So I just went with the default (live bookmarks) and that lead to another drop down menu: Add live bookmark..create in (seven different choices). Okay, let's back up and try again. Choose "Google" this time instead of "live bookmarks." Ouch! Now I've got a pop up notice that my Reader items were beginning made available to my friends from Google Talk--and listed a bunch of people I'd never heard of. Time to scream so loud that Jill Lininger must have heard me all the way downstairs (or maybe Mark called her when I asked him a question he couldn't answer) because she magically appeared at my shoulder and said, "Oh, just ignore that...." Of course while Jill watched me add a couple more from the list, there were no glitches or strange messages. I did ultimately add a few which were not on the list: webjunction, the Federal Depository Library Program Desktop, and death notices from the Journal Times. So if you don't see my homework for week five on this blog, just check my google reader feeds to see if you find me in the JT. Oh, yes, one small success, I figured out how to delete one I had inadvertently added twice.