This picture has nothing to do with RSS feeds - I just like it.
I have pondered RSS feeds and finally decided not to sign up for any. I already get Unshelved and Nancy Pearl's Book Reviews. There are two blogs I try to look at on a regular basis:
Stephen's Lighthouse - SirsiDynix's Vice President of Innovation, Stephen Abram:
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com
and
Kathryn Greenhill, a librarian in Western Australia, who works at Murdoch University Library as Emerging Technologies Specialist:
http://librariansmatter.com/blog
(Why, oh why aren't these Web address turning into Hypertext? - help!)
In the tutorial, it said:
"RSS feeds offer a simplified view of Web content down to just text, pictures and videos--minus the site's style and formatting, which can sometimes hinder or befuddle casual reading"
The above two sites I visit are clean and well formatted, no advertising or things flashing in your face. I can understand if you were a frequent visitor to news sites or sites that had a lot of extraneous stuff on them, RSS would be useful. But I'm going to pass on it for now.
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