What the heck is RSS?
Many of us have known about and sung the praises of RSS for what feels like a long time. But for every person I know who can't live without it, I estimate that I know 20-50 who don't know anything about it.
Leveraging the power of RSS has long since changed my personal habits in information gathering and digestion. I am able to scan and take in much more information that I believe to be relevant to work and personal like than I could, say, 5 years ago.
The ITS Financial Services group had a meeting where they shared a video that describes what RSS and how it works. The video is about 5 minutes long and does a great job of laying it all out. Since most people who read this blog are getting to it directly, it could be that most readers aren't using RSS to get here. Next time you have 5 minutes, I highly recommend watching this video.
BTW - I'm a Google Reader convert, so starting with it (the video uses it as an example) makes sense to me if you are looking to try RSS out.
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I just used the export OPML feature of the Firefox Sage add-on and the import from other readers feature of Google Reader to upload all my Sage feeds. It worked well. If my Sage feeds were better organized it would have worked better. ;-) I have 60+ Sage feeds. The ones which were organized into folders created folders with the same name; the vast unwashed masses appeared as a "sage-feeds" folder in Google Reader (GReader?). Very cool.
Google reader is a nice pick. I had tried some time ago getting RSS feeds to my Firefox bookmarks but kept forgetting to check them. With Google reader I seem to remember to check it daily. I like the presentation, the auto-marking, and web-based implementation. Thanks.
Bob Fowles, retired but wired