I can’t reccomend Weblogs and RSS in information work from Library Information Update strongly enough. Winship does a great job explaining the possitive aspects of blogs and and syndication.

So technically there’s no reason for an organisation of whatever size not to blog the ease of use means contributions don’t have to be limited to those with great IT confidence, and in some organisational blogs the content can come from a range of people.

Newsfeeds or news aggregators are services that use RSS to allow you to receive, within one page, many of these sources. These could be additions to blogs, or to other changeable sites like directories of websites or learning materials, local and national newspapers, broadcast news, specialist subject newsletters and so on. News available might be quite specific, such as BBC news on e-commerce. You choose the sources you want from the list of the thousands available to the service and see the latest headlines %u2014 and sometimes the text %u2014 from your chosen ones. Headlines will be updated regularly, with the latest shown each time you log in. You can also add other sources you come across that are not listed. (An orange XML or RSS icon on a website shows a feed is available.) An aggregator may be software you download and install on to your PC, like Amphetadesk27 and FeedReader28 or a web-based service like Bloglines,29 MyFeedster,30 NewsIsFree31 and Syndic8,32 that can be used from anywhere.