Week #4 Thing #8

This week the task was to set up our own RSS feed reader, and subscribe to at least five newsfeeds. Since I already use Google blogger, I was connected to many of my classmates! A few of the feeds I have subscribed to include: Discovery News Top Stories, School Library Journal and Science Daily. I officially feel overwhelmed. It did not take me long to find interesting sites to subscribe to, but I find this exercise to be a huge sink of time. Right now I have 303 items waiting for me to read. On my last visit to the google reader, it took me three hours to read all of the information. Everything was very interesting and it is difficult for me to determine what I should read, and what I should skip.

I guess my final though about RSS is that this could be a very useful tool, if I had specific sites I was interested in gathering information about. For instance when I move into a position of media specialist, I could limit the information to professional inquiries. But my general interest in many subjects.... is exhausting... at least at the present moment :)