Wednesday, July 4, 2007

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are intuitively useful pieces of kit and used carefully can provide useful timely info, especially if one is involved in putting together a newsletter. Whilst the boosters for newsfeeds cite the ease of use and the fact that one no longer needs to go to sites and check e-mail etc, unless the feeds are carefully chosen, one still ends up with a few nuggets that have to be extracted from a lot of dross.
The feed finding tools are good but time consuming (lots of hits if you search for a common topic) and prone to leading one astray in pursuit of items that might be of interest but which are not necessarily work related.
Overall a good system but requiring careful selection and disciplined application. More useful than my friend Flickr.

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