Is RSS becoming easier to understand? Do you recognize new benefits of using this tool? Do you remember to check your feeds regularly? Has it become a habit (or obsession!) yet?
RSS is easier now ... but I find it difficult to check and read and otherwise keep up with all of the various feeds I've chosen. In some measure all of these Web 2.0 tools contribute to an overload of information. I have not yet figured out how to limit that information flow ... or even if I should.
What I do know is that RSS alone could take up a considerable portion of my day. Never mind other blogs and web sites and Flickr photo groups, and the many listservs I belong to, etc. And we haven't even started to talk about Facebook!
I'm sure that I'm not the first person to question what all of this connectedness does for us? Am I better off with so many points of connection to a diverse array of information? Or is there so much that I can't really internalize or act on any of it? Does it at some point become just a burden? How does one self-filter all of the information to a manageable amount? Some of these Web 2.o tools can help sort it all out ... but they certainly add to the dilemma too!
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