Tuesday, October 20, 2009

RSS Feeds

I set up a Bloglines account and subscribed to both WPL blogger feeds and outside feeds. RSS feeds are seen as a cure for information overload, but I worry about RSS overload. Having everything in one place may make it too easy to get swamped by interesting new information. I used to visit far more websites that I do now and subscribe to lots of listservs, but I've gradually narrowed these down to those that I find most valuable. By subscribing to a variety of feeds, I would be faced with way more information than I need. The one exception is technology feeds, because they contain useful news that I wouldn't necessarily discover on my own.

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