I've never really searched specifically for feeds before. Usually I just check out blogs linked to blogs I already enjoy, and save the ones I like. But here are my thoughts on the sites:
Feedster: Not having any luck at all with this one. Maybe it's because I'm doing searches for things with the word 'library', but I seem to get mostly lists of books, and nothing else. Okay, actually, forget that - I just did a search for 'satire' and got another set of results like this. Granted, they are all satire books, but...it's a little ridiculous not to get any blogs with people talking about their opinions.
Topix - I'm not really sure how useful this one would be for me...I already know how to find news items in other ways, and that seems to be most of what it does.
Syndic8 - I couldn't make sense of this one at all. None of the subjects I entered brought back anything relevant, and when I tried just searching the names of some blogs I already enjoy nothing appeared either.
Technorati - not much luck with this one either. I do think the way the frontpage updates ever few seconds with a new blog post is pretty neat...I think it was making my browser lag like mad, but it was neat. I learned some interesting things this way, like a rumor from K-Fed's new girlfriend that Britney Spears used to breastfeed her kids while she was drunk.
Overall, I didn't have much luck with any of them. But maybe I just wasn't using them right. All in all, I still prefer the 'old-fashioned' method of searching - if you can consider Google 'old-fashioned' anyway. A simple search for 'library blogs' returns sites like: this one, which divides them up nicely by country and is a nice way to get worldwide perspectives, and this one, which divides things by various subjects including libraries and books.
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