Topic 6: RSS feeds

I decided to use Bloglines at my RSS aggregator. I found the instructions in the handout created by Gilles Plains really useful in helping me create an account and sign up to some websites suggested in the topic outline. These instructions look quite comprehensive and deal with subscribing to feeds other than blogs, such as Flickr and podcasts. It occurs to me that by "following" other Blogger.com blogs I have subscribed to an RSS feed of sorts. When I am at the Blogger Dashboard I can see summaries of any new posts posted by anyone with a blog in the 23 Things pilot group. Subscribing to RSS feeds saves a lot of time visiting sites individually for updates. Visiting one website (Bloglines) instead of many is a definite time saver. I think it took me about 15 minutes to sign up to Bloglines and add some feeds.