#15 RSS Feeds

Really Simple Syndication is purportedly what RSS stands for, although my experience of using it via google reader has only been Relatively simple. It is a very handy technology for keeping up with your special interests, news services and the like. However I have found it to be a source of information overload. If you subscribe to a very frequently updated feed, you can find yourself innundated with updates to read. The internet is such a vast and ever changing realm of information that I find it almost immpossible to keep up with everything, even if you whittle it down through RSS. In these circumstances if you are on a limited usage Internet plan, undiscriminating use of RSS could be quite a drain. So it has limitations for news sites, but is excellent for following columnists and bloggers. With RSS you can get all your favourites (such as AJ25'sMusings) as soon as they post and need never miss a column or go trawling through blog archives again.