# 15 RSS Feeds and # 16 Subscribing

I found the information about this topic accessible and easy to follow. RSS allows me to connect to my favourite websites and receive updates. It will enable me to stay more up to date because I will automatically receive feeds when these sites have posted comments or updated their information. Interestingly, I discovered that as a Google Account User, I already had a Google Reader Account and because I had already become a follower of some people's blogs, I could see their updates. I added SLAV and The Wheeler Center onto my RSS subscription feeds.

This will be particularly useful with my class. Rather than checking to see when they have updated their Outprac Blogs, I can now subscribe to a RSS feed and this will streamline the process.

My only concern is whether I have created another thing to continually check. I already struggle to keep up with home and work emails, texts, phone call messages and I'm not even on Facebook! Nevertheless, I think the advantages outweigh this concern.

RSS or Twitter?
This was an interesting debate. According to the reading, some people are abandoning RSS for Twitter. Raph T noted that "I still don't get how people can possibly compare RSS with Twitter. One is asynchronous, the other is synchronous." From Andrew: "Twitter will ultimately beast RSS because (1) discovery of new content is built into the system and (2) twitter is much more publisher-friendly than RSS because it drives readers back to the publisher's site."

I went on to the website of the SLV and discovered that there was no RSS feed but I could follow them on Twitter.

# 16 Subscribing

There was no active link to the "Feed Me : A Gentle Introduction to Internet Feeds" but I did find the video called "What is RSS?" by Common Craft to be useful. I spent some time subscribing to various blogs such as Read alert.