Using RSS is simple

Rss

I've found that it's always a mistake to tell new people at a cocktail party that you're a tech columnist. If they don't immediately say, "Sorry, I'm going to find a pillar to talk to," then definitely ask, "Well, can you explain to me what RSS is and why should I be concerned about it?" "At this time I would pretend to be a food poisoning to avoid the next" torture. It is torture, because the concept of RSS is very simple but very scratching, (a) It is difficult to explain (b) the average person's understanding of it should be much higher than it is now. The first time I mentioned RSS was about 4 years ago in a column, if my recent online survey had some meaning, it would be possible to discover that the world's people can still be divided into two categories, and that people who are in touch with RSS all day long are nothing new to them (for " What is your overall feeling about RSS? "This question, 15% of respondents chose" it changed my life. I'll call my kids R, S and S. And others face the question "How long have you been using RSS" and still "what is RSS?" Answer
(Details of the survey are as follows: There are now about 100 people surveyed, although I hope that the respondents to the science and technology fans and ordinary people will be half, but it is not easy to let the latter group of people to accept the investigation. The investigation is still in progress and you are welcome to sign up TINYURL.COM/3A2AWF to express your opinion. )

So: Whether you ask or not ask me what RSS is (richsitesummary or reallysimple syndication), for the benefit of the reader, I'll explain what RSS is and what it does for you. First of all, please imagine the information as water, and the library is a lake. Information carriers such as books and periodicals were poured into the "lake" like water. Those who wanted to get information came to the lake and scooped the water out of the lake. Although there is continuous water in and out of the lake, but most of the water is still in the lake, we have to get this water must go to the lake. The Web page is largely similar.

All kinds of information are constantly being aggregated into the "lake" of the library, but the process is largely placid. The emails sent to us are different, and the water of information is simply raging. This information is much more useful to us, because the water is no longer stationary, and we need not kiss the water to the lake itself. But as in the past, we still have to rely on others to inject water into our buckets, and we still can't do anything about what kind of information we get, and when and how we get that information. Because of this, one of the big drawbacks of email is that we often get a lot of dirty water--spam. If information is like water, then when we need it, there must be a way to send water to our homes, just as tap water flows through the pipe into the home. This is RSS: a way to send information to our hands in a way that suits us. RSS is the conduit and valve that allows us to use and manage the flow of information.

Once you understand what's going on with RSS, it's easy. In today's world of all kinds of information, RSS is quickly popular. In my online survey, One-fourth of the respondents subscribed to more than 50 RSS feeds, 17% subscribed to up to 200 sources of information, and about 5% per cent subscribed to more than 500 sources of information. (This may not be the whole story: 3% of respondents chose "Where do I have time to count them?") "That's an answer. )

If the answer illustrates some of the questions, RSS may already be the victim of its own success. The more people rely on it, the more sources of information can be obtained from the Internet. So there is a sad and disturbing consequence: RSS simplifies the way we get information, but it makes the information we come into contact with is much more than we can resist. Most RSS users store dozens of of sources in the Reader (reader), which is the software we use to collect and read RSS feeds, and you can think of it as a storage tank that stores all of your information. But many of the articles in the reader end up having no time to read, and more than 60% of those surveyed said they actually read less than half of the articles from the source.

So how do you avoid these problems when using RSS? The best way to do this is to start using your daily browser to get in touch with RSS. Do not download any proprietary software, just use Googlereader (Www.google.com/reader) or Bloglines (www.bloglines.com) and other online readers. Please follow these suggestions when adding RSS feeds.

Remember: Don't be too busy adding information sources. In doing so, you will soon get yourself into a tight and powerless response, and there are many things you should read but can't read. Be ruthless about removing sources of information that don't really interest you, and the sources of information that you don't have time to read. According to Reading necessity, reading interest degree and reading benefit classification, the information source is grouped into different folders.

In fact, there will be more and more information from RSS, but people must first streamline their RSS feed sources. We need to forget the existence of RSS, only when needed to unscrew the information faucet. We should not take this information piping system too seriously. As Www2sky.net Raka, a developer at RSS reader software Awasu, says, people want to know everything, but what do they really want to know? What do they really need? How exactly do they want to use this information? Of course, I won't tell you at a cocktail party that RSS needs to be thin, even if you say you may not be interested in listening.