Thing 4 -- Learn About RSS

Before I started this course, there were a couple of blogs I read once in a while. I had to go to the site to see if the content had been updated. Often, there wasn’t anything new, so it was basically a waste of my time. Since I have now added them to my RSS feeds, I’ll know if they’ve been updated automatically. Now that I know there is an easy way to get updates on blogs without having to actually visit each site individually to check for updates, I think I will subscribe to many more blogs.
I didn’t really understand RSS before and am so glad I do now. It’s so very simple and very useful.

As far as how I handle information overload, well, I guess I don’t do a very good job of it. I tend to bookmarks lots of sites that have good, useful information that I think I can use in my classes only to forget I have it because I have so many sites saved. It is so easy to get distracted by all the information that is available on the web. I don’t know how many times I’ve started searching for something or reading something on a website only to end up somewhere completely different on a totally different topic through clicking on hyperlinks. Using RSS feeds will be helpful in keeping me updated and reminded about blog content. I only wish this same option were available for websites, too. It would be so great to have a RSS feed for websites so that I know when the content has been updated. That would be very beneficial.