Hummm.... "less stress with feeds"? Perhaps for some it does help, however for me I'm not yet convinced it would 'simplify' my life. Maybe it's because I don't spend a terrific amount of time researching every possible thing via the computer. My world is still a 'bit old-fashion', as I still enjoy reading books and papers I can touch, talking with people I can see and hear, and putting ink and pen to real paper! I can see if a person 'mostly' depends on the computer to acquire information, then utilizing feeds could perhaps simplify things.
I did find the exercises interesting (as I'm finding of all the lessons). When I began #7, though, I had some frustration trying to add those sites I frequently visit. I failed to 'understand' that not every site subscribes to RSS. Actually it's too bad that they don't, since my personal interest area of genealogy would be well severed if everyone would use RSS . The knowledge and information available is so vast, it really would help to narrow things down and save time for individual genealogists. Ha........ guess I just proved the whole think 'could' help me! Never say never!
I found some of the RSS search tools both helpful and interesting, however I think successful use of the tools is most dependant on the type of information one wishes to have fed. For general news they're great, however when one is interested in a particular hobby, sport, local, etc it can be difficult to set that up. I least liked Feedster as I found too much information with little or no way of being specific on my search. I had best success with Blogline search and Google Blog search. They just seemed to zero in of my areas of interest.
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I agree with you. Once the feeds are set up it's great but browsing to try and find something specific is ridiculous! I liked the same search engines that you did.
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