Organizing your web life with RSS and website updates.

RSS is generally symbolized by a button that looks like this:
and stands for Really Simple Syndication. Instead of going into an explanation of what it is, and how it works, I'm including a wonderful video by CommonCraft.com that tells the whole story MUCH better than I ever could.

My own contribution to this post is encouragement to start using RSS readers asap, if you aren't already. For me, being a student leader (and a human being) has meant keeping track of lots of different blogs and websites for news, events, and information. RSS probably saves me at least a couple of hours a week of web surfing, and makes me feel nice and organized.

If you are following a site that doesn't offer RSS (though this is becoming increasingly rarer), you can also use a Firefox browser extension called Update Scanner

And suddenly the World Wide Web feels a little bit more manageable :)

Comments

[Steve Snedeker]

So you are 2 steps ahead of me... Tomorrow was going to be part 2 of my series of utilizing web 2.0 technologies on my blog. This part was going to be based on feeds and how amazing they truly are :)

I will post my link when I publish my blog entry, but I can't agree with you more people need to start using feeds ASAP

[Tania]

Very strangely, we're both a few steps ahead of a whole lot of people (stranger still-college students) who have yet to discover the beauty of The Feed. It's weird how often I mentioned my feed reader and get blank stares in response. I look forward to your blog entry.

P.S. If you ever feel like writing for this blog, just let me know. Student leaders/students/everyone can definitely benefit from some talk about technology.