Honestly, without RSS I think I would be suffering from information overload. RSS readers allow me to get everything I need, from all the sites I normally read, in one centralized location. I could never keep track of all those as bookmarks and would never have the time to visit each site individually. I subscribe to over 140 different feeds, and RSS allows me to read all those feeds in one go. Although I do see another classmates point about narrowing my field of information vision to only what I want to read, and not experiencing other topics. That's what my undergrad was for, having to read lots of stuff, I really wasn't that interested in. So, I figure now I am on an information vacation. Getting to read what I want as soon enough someone will force me to read stuff I don't want to anyway. At least here I have a choice. The overload aspect can happen when you RSS something that is an aggregator such as Digg, which in my case ends up being duplicates of all the other Tech blogs I follow. So it's knowing what to RSS and what not to. You have to really implement good judgement. I try to only subscribe to feeds that relate somehow to my professional development and expose me to topics that I otherwise would not have the time to pursue. The ability to use RSS readers in order to organize your information intake is invaluable, thus taking away from information overload. You can read what you want, and however much of it you want. RSS by iself is only one half of the whole, it has to be combined with a reader to have its value truly seen.
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