Productivity Tip: RSS
I was reading Seth Godin’s blog yesterday and saw his post in defense of RSS following the usual echo chamber discussion on the subject:
Here’s what you need to know:
- It’s not particularly difficult to keep up with 200 blogs you care about in less than hour using an RSS reader.
- RSS provides home delivery. Instead of remembering where to click, or waiting for a post to get all buzzy and hot, the good stuff comes to you. Automatically and free.
- Subscribing to a blog is easy. Just click here for my blog, for example. In Newsfire, you can paste the URL of any blog and it automatically finds the RSS feed for you.
I could not agree more.
What’s RSS? In simple terms it’s a technology that tells you when a website has new content. The beauty of RSS is that you can browse the latest content from hundreds of sites in a fraction of the time it would take you to do it through your browser. |
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If you have to read, monitor, surf, or browse large amounts of content every day. RSS is an INVALUABLE time-saver.
I am a long time user (and fan) of the FeedDemon RSS reader. It’s a Windows application that makes reading, organizing and searching RSS feeds fast and easy.
There’s a free and paid version of FeedDemon – it’s worth every cent.
If you’re stressed about trying to keep up, get into RSS, it will save you time and money.