Week 4 Assignment - Community Development 2.0

I have tried many times to get in the flow of using RSS feeds, and find it hard.

One thing that makes it VERY DIFFICULT, at work, is the way the Region discourages, and even prevents us from installing toolbar gadgets. So I can't easily install the cute little orange RSS feed button on my PC.
Which means I have to think about going somewhere else to click on the feeder link. GRRRRR

But even at home, I haven't found it an easy habit to get into. I've tried 3 approaches

• I put the RSS button in my IE & Firefox toolbars
• I signed up with GoogleReader and subscribed to some very cool library blogs that I knew I wanted to keep up with, for my teaching last summer.
• And now I've signed up for Bloglines.

But in each case, I have to do something outside my normal routine -- which is check email, open DOCs, open Workflows.

And worse, if I do break my routine, and find something cool in my news feeds, cripes, I hate to think how distracted I would get.

Who has a good solution out there?

I want to figure this out, because a lot of people LOVE newsfeeds, and I want our library to keep in touch with them.

For me, I really really prefer getting things emailed to me. I started getting email alerts from PC World Canada magazine of their latest news stories, and I find it easy to skim these, save the few articles of interest (by bookmarking to my del.icio.us account) and delete the rest.

But that's so old school. How can I get into using RSS and newsfeeds more regularly? What's the habit I need to form?