RSS might very well be one of the most overlooked technologies out there. We all use it, to read, to get content on different pages, to promote our content and our influence, but we rarely talk about it, there are a handful of articles on strategies, best practices and the likes. But there are special plugins to enhance your feed, there is RSS feed advertising, there are buttons showing RSS readers numbers. So here’s the paradox: if the technology is actually important, why do we fail to talk about it?

As it happens to some technologies, they are extremely useful, but lack a certain coolness factor, so we ignore them. We use them, we appreciate their value, but they are almost nonexistent in what we say, write or recommend. And then a comment someone makes that they have subscribed to an RSS feed reminds us that we depend on it! Continue reading

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Really Simple syndication was definitely around when I started blogging. I read a few articles about it and decided it was not for me. See, I love visiting the actual blog. RSS aggregators seemed a bit like trading an actual meeting with the blogger in question for a quick hi on instant messenger windows.

I went about to use my blogroll, bookmarks, social bookmarking and custom lists to keep track of the blogs I wanted to keep an eye on. Until it became too much! There are so many wonderful blogs out there that just opening all the links in new tabs will take forever. So I decide to finally put my Bloglines account to good use. I took a while to register for all the feeds in my blogroll and it will of course take longer to register the rest of the blogs I read.

But I am definitely starting to see the benefits in what time saving is concerned. Did you make such a switch? If you did what do you think of it. If you didn’t, what other system do you use?

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!

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