RSS Feeds

My comment about RSS feeds is that, just like blogs, there can be a point where you get sucked into a world of TMI (too much information) and TMMI (too much meaningless information). Then the technology becomes the end instead of the means, and one finds it extremely difficult to absorb and digest everything that is being posted on the feeds.

I wonder to myself what kind of ratio there is to total rss feeds and rss feeds used in a meaningful way. A million to 1? And how much time is spent creating rss feeds, blogs, plus Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, etc. posts? Seems every newspaper in the world has a presence on all of those. Is it just a matter of creating one text and uploading to multiple sites?

Using Google Reader to subscribe and manage the RSS feeds you want to view is much easier than I-Tunes, in my opinion.

Just as an aside, a really good portrait of feeds gone awry is M.T. Anderson's novel Feed, in the YA section. If that ever comes to pass, hold on to your hats...