Catching up with RSS

So I'm a bit behind the gang. Other than a brief intro to RSS a couple of months ago with having a verse of the day hit my Gmail account, I haven't really had any exposure to the real deal. So yesterday while checking my Yahoo account I noticed that it listed a folder called "All RSS Feeds" and I thought I'd check it out. Sure enough it allowed you to choose any sort of content you wanted. I selected New York Times and CNET among a few others. Immediately, I found a terrific article on a topic that Tom Sands had asked my to research earlier that day! Wow! Talk about luck. So I can certainly see that with a little tweaking to choose appropriate subject matter and providers that this can be very helpful to me.

I also learned how to put the CNET RSS on my Google portal page, but it only shows the headlines for the top 4 stories. It is not as robust as using the reader in the Yahoo mail folder. So I will continue to experiment until I find what works best for me. I look forward to meeting with the rest of the team to share in your experiences as well.

Oh, and the cool thing I found yesterday? "Googling state government documents" a story about using Google in state government document delivery.


http://news.com.com/Googling+state+government+documents/2100-1038_3-6180002.html?tag=sas.email