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| RSS Reader is a life raft saving us from a sea of useless information.
One of the main problems with the Internet these days is the
fact that there is so much information out there; it can be
quite hard to find the particular knowledge that you’re looking
for. It can often feel like you’re surfing waves of thick
chocolate fudge sauce and your honeycomb board has a crack
that’s getting wider by the second. Over stimulus is the issue
here; you wanted to read opinions from music enthusiasts about
music, and every second blog article had to do with new punk
hairdo trends and which band has the coolest tattoos. How can we
find only the content we’re looking for without getting bogged
down in miscellaneous information that erodes both time and
patience?
The answer is in context. There’s now a way to sift through the
cacophony of babble and wisdom to find exactly what you’re
looking for. Instead of having to join clubs and organizations
and receive their newsletters via email at their convenience you
can now have control over what you receive. Having to search
through millions of blogs to find the few you like has now
become an obsolete task. The new system is called an RSS Reader:
‘Rich site summary’ or ‘really simple syndication’ are the
common definitions of this software. The process begins by
signing up to receive automatic updates from blogs and other Web
sites that distribute summaries of their latest postings to your
reader. You then find which ones you like and delete the rest.
You can keep adding new sites until you have literally hundreds
of informative connections in your areas of specific interest.
Another great aspect of the RSS Reader program is the fact that
you can put in key words of interest and the computer will surf
the Web for you and add new blogs and web sites to your list,
rating them according to the terms you have selected. You then
scan over these and add the ones you feel are relevant, deleting
the detritus. Eventually you will have an email-style formatted
file where you can search through all your favourite writers,
news, and topics’ latest information. Then you also have
functions such as ‘comment’ so you can automatically share your
input with your fellow humans. Or, you can reply to the
‘messages’ and actually communicate with the producers of the
ideas.
This will really help to decentralise the information sharing
processes of the current top-down mass communication systems
like the media. We can hear multiple opinions on an issue and
give our own views, instead of being told one story that is
heavily affected by the company’s personal perspective of the
situation.
So, you can see this has the potential for something quite big.
Less time wasted, finding all the knowledge you’re looking for,
and sharing your opinion and meeting others similar to yourself
has never been so easy. The RSS Reader is a knife cutting away
all the useless packaging, revealing the true content of the
gift of the Internet.
About the author:
Jesse S. Somer M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is a
simple-minded fool discovering the hidden opportunities and
magical possibilities that reside in the world of the Internet.
Come join him on this adventure.
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