Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Thing #8: RSS

I always wondered what RSS was for. I started seeing it and figured it had something to do with iPods, so I never messed with it since I'm pretty anti-iPod. Now that I know what they're all about, I'll have to be very careful with them. Just putting these five feeds on my reader gave me more than 50 items to pour over. I'm a news junkie to begin with, but this will make it worse now that I don't have to go looking for it.
Now I can keep up with current events and follow my soccer team in England all in one place. Definitely a time saver.
Libraries could teach RSS feeds to students so they could gather information for research. I guess students would need a Google account. I don't know what district policy is about that...

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