Barbara Feldman: Do You Use RSS Feeds?

I've spent parts of this week so far cancelling enewsletters and switching everything to MyYahoo in RSS feeds. I think I'm getting 20+ newsletters a week and end up skipping half instead of opening them. The MyYahoo tool seems to work better for me than a few RSS readers that I've tried. I can drag things around and lay them out in an order that makes sense for a quick read.

I also use them on my own sites so that people can do the same!

All good--but too much good information...

We are just getting started with RSS so I am trying to catch up and get to speed with it. There are some very good ones on Discovery.

I use Google Reader to keep track of the tech world mostly, because it's constantly changing. I also get funny news stories delivered to me, the most interesting pictures on Flickr each day, optical illusions and Harry Potter stuff. I'm subscribed to about 45 feeds, which means I often get nearly 100 items to read a day. (When I go away, and don't read them for a while, it often amasses to over 1000 unread items) It's a great time waster, but also one of the best things on the web. I'd hate to go back to checking my favourite 'blogs four times a day.

RSS feeds are great for keeping content alive on your web site .. but do you really need them directed to you (unless of course you are a specialist in an area that does change minute by minute). A blog or web page is sufficient where the ideas and comments are developed in larger sections and you can move back and forward through the content.

I can't think of anything that I'd need minute by minute (well, perhaps the new initiatives that the UK government think up for its schools- then they'd all fit on one continuous feed)

Yes - I use them on my website.
They are a great way of keeping fresh content on the site w/o having to do anything!

I use it with Google Reader. Usually for blogs and crafting sites and for things to do with the children. My husband uses it for news and sports related things.