Additional RSS Feeds

I've added a couple more RSS feeds to this blog site to widen its scope from just Ashfield.

Ashfield District Council isn't an island, it is part of national democratic involvement at a local level and is carried forward by nation-wide local government initiatives such as eGov (Electronic Government - using enabling technologies to give better access to, and deliver more efficient, services).

On the right hand side there are now RSS feeds from:

• the Department of Communities and Local Government (or DCLG - the Government Department which is responsible for 'building the capacity of communities to shape and protect their own future')
• the Local Government Association (or LGA - which exists to 'promote better local government')
• the eGovernment channel from eGov monitor (a website which has news items and discussion forums about using ICT to transform the way government works)

I could continue and add hundreds of channels to this blog; the process is really easy once you begin to recognize where to find RSS feeds and how to use them. On the downside, you stand the risk of boring your readers with information they are not interested in, thereby swamping the real point of a blog which is to present your own news.

When adding RSS feeds you should also consider that each feed needs to be checked for updates each time your blog site is visited or refreshed; this will cause a slight delay for visitors. Even worse, an RSS feed may be down, and that not only slows your blog site down trying to find it, but looks bad on your site if you are displaying an error message.

So, I shall stick with this clutch of channels for now, unless anyone can suggest any 'killer' RSS feeds they would like to see?