Apparently when I have information overload, I walk away from the computer for a while and come back to it later! I can appreciate the idea behind RSS- saving valuable time by having information come to me at one site rather than me going to multiple individual news sites and blogs. The idea of saving time with these technological advancements is certainly desirable. Again, the embedded videos were very informative and I was able to set up the Google Reader account, create the suggested folders and even subscribe to several news sites and blogs. I found widgets to use to subscribe on some sites and I had to copy and paste the URL for others. A few just did not work or gave way too many updates on things.
While watching the video on creating folders and bundles, I was a bit overwhelmed at the number of blogs that the person explaining had on her google reader. I am not sure I feel the need to share all the items with people or that anyone would really want them. Tags to share individual pages rather than subscriptions might be helpful.
In terms of information overload, I think the RSS will be a good tool to help filter some information and have important news come to me. I plan to add subscriptions slowly so there is still not too much information. I guess in the next Thing, I will learn how to subscribe to more blogs!
I struggle with the overload as well. What I like about RSS is that I get a one sentence summary of what has posted on my favorite sites. The problem comes when I add too many feeds. You may consider revisiting your feed reader after some time and weeding out feeds that are not engaging.
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