George Siemens at elearnspace says:

One of the complaints often directed at blogging is that not everyone is a blogger - not everyone has the interest, time or the skills to write for others.

While glancing through Furl’s Popular List , I realized how effective it could be as a learning tool. Anyone can use Furl (it simply stores a copy of a webpage in your user folder, so pages aren’t lost or links broken). Making connections is a knowledge era skill. Imagine a group of 25 students subscribing to each others online topics of interest (Furl folders can be public or private)…gaining insight into what other classmates found interesting enough to keep.

Note to self: start a Furl pilot program in one subject specific courses like Psychology or Law.

I’d been looking for a list like this for quite a while…here are over 150 local, state and national U.S. newspapers with RSS feeds. And that doesn’t include international papers. I just think that’s pretty amazing, and there is no doubt that number is going to grow.

Right now, every student in my school could have a free subscription to the New York Times, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News and a whole bunch of other really respected, well-written newspapers. If they wanted to get a little ambitious, they could go to Blogdigger and “roll their own” feeds from the various newspapers of interest, say The Week in Review from the Times, national news from the Post, the learning news from the Christian Science Monitor, the local news from the Philly Inquirer, and the weather from USA Today. And it would all come to them, as it happens, whenever they want to read it. That does not, of course, guarantee that they would read it, but still. It’s not hard to set them up with a Bloglines account, create a feed for them, have them add it, and then give them a few minutes every other day or so to check out what’s new. Or have them add interesting stories to a class blog. Or have them find their own feeds. Or…
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