Science Fiction made semi-real!
RSS new feeds emind me of an episode on the TV show Babylon 5 in which a character goes up to a public newsreader, logs in, and has his personal news preferences show up.
Besides being handy to keep up with a breaking story, or the latest updates on severe weather, I can see RSS feeds being very useful for folks doing research on a topic—as long as an RSS feed is available on the sites they’re using.
It’s easy to get carried away with RSS, just as it is with any new ‘toy”. Having too many feeds on RSS means you can waste a lot of time looking at them all.
I was glad that one of the examples (NPR) was audio (only?)—that’s a good example of another format.
I did Google.com; just being able to use the same password as the blog is a big brain-saver. I successfully added subscriptions, deleted some, and made a new folder. I failed to get a shortcut to show up on my desktop. I guess I’ll have to work at it..
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