I finally discover the joy of RSS
Holy smoke. I just discovered what a huge technophobic rock I’d been hiding under…
Because how great are RSS feeds? I was inspired to give the “scary” (read: new) technology a go after reading a post by Mindy McAdams. She said:
“There was a time when I used my own blogroll like a daily reading list, but RSS is so much more efficient.”
And I thought: “Hmm, I’m doing the same with my blogroll and I’m incredibly time-poor… could I be missing something?” (Ah duh, I’d even written a post about RSS!!).
If, like me, you aren’t yet into RSS, give it a go. It took me about one minute to set up my first feed using Google Reader, which is amazingly similar to email and sends relevant information straight to me – heaven for a journalist!
Mindy McAdams said,
September 23, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
Hey, Koren, I’m very happy to hear that link was useful to you! It was really an aside to the blogroll post, so I almost didn’t include it. But then I thought, well, maybe someone reading this will not know about RSS, and if the link is there, maybe that person will find out. And there you are!
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