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Written by Larry Dearing
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Sunday, 26 June 2011 17:21 |
I don’t know about you, but I’m really bombarded by too much noise along with some of the really good stuff I want to keep track of on the web. Twitter has some good uses but trying to “take” value from it is hard as it is with Facebook. There is just too much information to keep track of out there. A tool that can save a lot of time and confusion is a good RSS reader.
First we have to be aware of what an RSS reader is. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and most information based sites and communities offer RSS (Really Simple Syndication) “feeds” of information you can pull to your own destination website. The “reader” if you will is that destination website that presents that external content on the destination site. A good reader is capable of aggregating several feeds into one stream or separating them as you might wish.
Here’s the short recommendation; use one! You can funnel RSS feeds into a central location where you and/or your visitors can view them. I bring in external content via RSS feeds here on my site at this link. The longer explanation for those unfamiliar with this concept follows below.
Ideally you want to be able to go to one location for all of your really valuable incoming information. Currently, I’m using Google Reader for this task. It’s a free and pretty flexible RSS reader that allows me to see an aggregation of all of the feeds I truly want to follow in one stream without the noise, or I can view them by source or category I choose. I can follow multiple blogs in one category, like web design resources, or view them separately by source. I can do the same for Twitter feeds, Linkedin, Facebook , and most importantly, all the various blogs I really like to follow.
Whatever solution or application you choose, bringing all of the information you really want to follow into one source will save you a lot of time and keep you organized. For those with the know-how, you can create your own central repository or aggregation of RSS feeds. Shy of the necessary abilities of a seasoned webmaster, you can simply use Google Reader and start organizing your true “follows” into one central location.
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