It's interesting to see how quickly things develop in the realm of the web. I have known about an enigmatic thing called the RSS for a while now. I knew that it basically brings you information somehow, however through researching it further I can now see the huge potential it has for gathering useful information.RSS feeds are much like having your newspaper delivered to your door, except in an electronic sense. You don't have to continually look for news on websites in the hope that there will be something that interests you. Instead you can reverse the flow of the traffic by requesting that the information that matches your interests arrives instantly at your digital doorstep.
When you log onto your RSS reader it is all there waiting for you!In the video posted below there is a great demonstration on how this tool can be used to gain information of all sorts. From tracking ebay for that particular item you are looking to buy, to getting updates about who is subscribing to you blogs. The video even shows us how to subscribe to torrents of media that have been uploaded to the web.
So in a nutshell, RSS feeds can get us with pretty much any type of information that we require, and hopefully it can help us avoid consuming the mindless information we don't need.
That's a good point about reversing the flow of information that we receive as it seems that for every piece of new technology, there is a new form of spam that comes with it!
ReplyDeleteIt is an advantage of RSS that we are able to choose the subjects that we find interesting or useful, although I still find that even within the feeds that I have subscribed to, there is still more that I would like to filter. Maybe that is just my experience, maybe I need to look more into my feeds...