So, Jeff and I were talking about how great RSS feed readers were the other day and how when you try to explain it to someone who hasn’t ever used one, they get confused and tune you out. Anyway, so here is my attempt for all my non-technical readers (which I think is mostly everyone).
It’s like your email. People send you emails. With a feed reader, you find blogs and websites you like that update content regularly, and you add their feed (basically just a link that only gives you the new content in a plain text type format). Then, you check it daily, like your email and any time there is something new there, it shows up and you can read it from inside that one page. So, on a typical day, I read about 50-100 articles from about 20 different blogs or websites. I probably get more articles that show up, but I don’t read everything, I can just skip over the stuff I don’t want to read. I can save things I want to go back and read. So, it’s basically a huge time saver. Rather than visiting 20 websites a day, looking for what is new, what I’ve read and what I haven’t, I get it all in a matter of minutes.
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