Beginning RSS Feeds and Twitter

Have successfully signed up to the BBC News RSS feed as an experiment.  RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and will allow me to see when new content has been added. I can get the latest headlines in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to visit the BBC's website directly.

I thought of adding an aggregate feedreader to this blog sometime in the future.  Looking into Google Reader revealed that it would be retired on 1st July 2013.  An interesting discovery, and a reminder that technology is ever evolving.  Google has just acquired Wavii according to the BBC technology news of 28th April, but checking Wavii's website shows that they will not be continuing with their app either.  Looks like I will need to continue my research....

Have also signed up to Twitter, following CILIP and Bournemouth and Poole College Sports.
Twitter is a microblogging service. Users make short updates called Tweets. They are 140 characters or less. More about Twitter when I have investigated it further.....