Marsco Information & Research

Bloglines launched a new feature the other week, the Image Wall.  It’s basically a big mosaic made up of a variety of different images from RSS feeds.  It’s quite fun to watch for a while.

Unfortunately it meant that Bloglines was being inadvertantly blocked from some libraries and schools because there is no way of controlling the content of the image wall (it does come with a disclaimer though).  Many users told Bloglines about this and how they didn’t want to have to block the site but were faced with no option.

So what did Bloglines do?  They just moved the image wall over to a new url.  Simple yet brilliant, didn’t take a lot but makes a whole load of people happier.  You can see it here.

I read a stupid amount of blogs, and am always finding more I want to follow.  If it wasn’t for the mighty Bloglines, I’d never keep up.  Of course, there’s always the view that I should just read less blogs and streamline it down, quality not quantity and all that.  Not sure I’m ready for that just yet…

Another post that’s been sitting in my saved items on Bloglines is one from Phil Bradley, linking to a brilliant post all about Bloglines, and how to use it.  If you want to find out more about RSS and Bloglines, or know someone who does/should, go and have a read.

Hey there, long time no blog.

BlogHer featured an interview with Susie Hawksworth the other week, and her blog is definitely worth checking out if you want to know more about life in the voluntary sector and using open-source software. And she likes chocolate, and knitting blogs.