Does your filter company offer a way to suggest changes in
categorizing? I've been pretty successful with requested changes with
Websense, our filter. Also, maybe the local whitelist could override the
company database if your district understands educational benefits of
bloglines.
Otherwise, I just switched from Bloglines to SharpReader
<http://sharpreader.com/>. It is a separate program though and thus may
cause other problems in your setup. DMOZ has a pretty complete list of
aggregators
<http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/RDF/Applications/RSS/News_Readers/>
with many web-based ones with preset news links.
Robert Eiffert, Librarian | beiffert@egreen.wednet.edu
Pacific MS Vancouver, WA | http://pac.egreen.wednet.edu/library
Librarian in the Middle blog at www.beiffert.net | robert@beiffert.net
Jacqueline Henry wrote:
>I have just signed up at bloglines.com. I love it. I particularly like
>the "clippings" function, which allows me to store articles for later
>use. I am also using it to create RSS feeds for Google News searches.
>It is a great tool for me personally - but I also see the potential for
>students using it to streamline and organize their online research. I
>sure would love to create a student activity to get them used to doing
>this. But - every good idea comes with its own unique obstacles. In
>this case, the obstacle is - what else? - the #%^!@ content filter!
>
>Does anyone know of anything with the same features as bloglines that
>our filter might not block? Thanks for your ideas.
>
>Jacquie
>
>"The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for
>poetry and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American
>way."
>
>>From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Jacquie Henry, MLS
>Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
>Gananda Central School District
>3195 Wiedrick Road
>P.O. Box 609
>Macedon, NY 14502
>315-986-3521 x 3144
>jhenry@gananda.org
>http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
>
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