RSS

I first explored RSS last year when an acquaintance of mine went on and on about it. I just couldn't see what the big deal was. I tried subscribing to some bundled stuff, which was boring and a waste of time. I couldn't figure out how to subscribe to what I wanted to and, since I had to log into something just to get to all this stuff, I dropped it. Now that I've revisited the topic, I think it's kinda cool. It defenitely helps to know how to subscribe to particular sites (duh!) As for finding those sites, I used the random, leap frog method, which was to find something I was interested in and look at what they subscribed to. Not the most efficient way of going about things, but much more fun. I found the blog search tools ineffective and frustrating. Will I keep using RSS? Possibly, probably, not sure. What I would like is to have an icon that sits on my desktop that I could click on, which would take me directly to my RSS feeds - rather than having to log into igoogle every time.

Later...Things 5 & 6. RSS has definitely been a very helpful tool. I've managed to keep on top of all kinds of things and find new stuff via links. It's been great! I've also played around lots with Google reader and found some other really useful stuff for my Other Life.