I tried both Bloglines Feed Search option and Google's list of the top 100 RSS feeds to choose the feeds I would add, besides the Library Journal one.
I added National Geographic News and read all about the Crow Cam (cameras on crows' legs to follow their daily activities). I'm not sure I'm ready to know the secrets of the Tasmanian Devil.
I added Dictionary.com's Word of the Day feed and was pleased that I knew today's word Paroxysm (though not it's pronunciation) but was stumped by past word Boulereversement.
I added Boing Boing, which features the latest gadget-y thing in the world of technology. Some of the tidbits were quite bizarre. These three RSS feeds are all in the top 50 feeds according to Google.
Last, but not of least interest to me, I added ComiPress-Manga News and Information, found by searching "Manga" in Bloglines' search. It mentioned ADV Presses' revived interest in Manga and talked about what is sure to be the next big thing: Blue Dragon, based on a video game by one of the creators of Final Fantasy and drawn by the creator of Dragon Ball Z. Sure to be a top request here in the library, although I'll be avoiding reading it myself -- I don't like that artist's work.
The news feeds are interesting. Boing Boing, Word of the Day and NG are good time wasters but not really relevant to work. The manga one I am quite happy to find. I'm afraid that the Library Journal one is rather snoozeworthy and so full of the organization's news that it provides more irrelevant news to wade through to get to anything useful. A filter would make it more useful.
It makes little sense to me to use Bloglines. Unless you have 100 RSS you want to check, you could just as easily Bookmark the homepage of the news provider and access it daily. Most of these feeds allow email alerts which would be just as convenient.
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Good point on the number of RSS feeds needed to make bloglines useful.
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