Who is RSS Worthy?
Really Simple Syndication – RSS – truly can be one of your online “best friends”. This wonderful technology allows you to have freshly published information from the web sites that are most important to you delivered directly to you instead of you having to go looking for it every day or throughout the week.
There are many free RSS Readers available to you. My reader of choice is Google Reader. If you are not familiar with how to implement Google Reader, please read my post called 8 Simple Steps To Google Reader.
Today, John Saddington at ChurchCrunch wrote a blog post titled 5 RSS Tips That Helped Me Stay Afloat. John’s tips will indeed help you manage the information flow of the web more effectively.
With regard to his 3rd point about “Organizing Your Feeds” – it is important to regularly assess which blogs add the most value to your life. Because it is so easy to subscribe with RSS, it is easy to get your feed reader overflowing with information. You need to determine which blogs truly are RSS Worthy so you don’t become cluttered and overwhelmed.
This also ties to John’s 4th point about “Limiting Yourself“. Yes, you should but you should always give new blogs you discover a chance. Every week you will discover new blogs that on the surface seem interesting. I often will trial subscribe to these. I give them a chance for a two week period or so. After a fair shot like this I determine if the writer is indeed contributing to my learning and if so I keep them. If they are not, then I deem them not RSS Worthy and I unsubscribe.
Always be open to reviewing and organizing your subscriptions to maintain the efficiency of the the information flow.
What has your experience been with RSS? If you use it, what reader do you prefer?
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