Week 2 R/D2

What are your early impressions of using a blog and what was your experience using an RSS Reader this week? Any surprises, pleasant or otherwise?
Which part(s) of Dale's Cone do you think each tool (Blog, RSS) lends itself best to and why?
Considering Siegel’s concept of "computer imagination", what do you think would be at least one "imaginative" educational use of each tool (blog, RSS) that takes advantage of each tool’s inherent strengths? That is, what do you think you and/or your students could use these tools for that they might not be able to do with other more simple or low-tech tools? Or, as Postman might ask, what is a problem to which each of these tools is an answer?
They was a shaky ground everywhere put that blog together for the first time. Am I doing the right thing? Should I change this or that? How do I know when I have done enough? The tasks though clearly marked did not give me many clues.
RSS feeds were frustrating and still are to some degree. Some feeds don't seem to work out. I end up just removing them. Some work for a while and then mysteriously quit perhaps when I access from another computer. But before I embedded an RSS I had an idea that it would be a ticker tape of digital information in a box on the screen for the latest and greatest news. It is to some degree but it does not jump out at you. You are taken to the original website.
The problem the BLOG answers is the collaboration at every one's convenience.
The problem the RSS answers is the instant information that you may not find out about until some other media fills you in.