RSS ruminations redux

RSS feeds seem like such a good way to communicate with faculty (and students), but let me talk about faculty first. I think many faculty would love to subscribe to a few focused research-related feeds, but the trick is to figure out a way to show them how to match their normal computing environment (their particular online habitat) with the appropriate feed aggregator/reader. I used to think that when Outlook came with its own feed reader, we would have a great starting point for this, but I suspect that not all faculty use Outlook the way that staff tend to do. This is especially probably the case with adjuncts. I can almost envision a wizard-like approach where faculty are walked through the typical options for locating their feeds (browser, desktop, Outlook, etc.) And then, of course supplying suggestions for feeds to subscribe to (library, news, journal feeds, scholarly blogs, grant news, etc) -- we would probably want to research this. Then we could send out a package which gets them up and running. I know that other divisions on campus are interested in this, so this might be an area of collaboration with Library & IT, or Public Affairs, or wherever. It needs some big publicity and maybe even some branding.