Thing #11

For this exercise I found myself a little overwhelmed with the amount of RSS feeds there are. I reviewed the search tools and found the Google’s Blog search was the simplest way for me to add subscriptions to my reader account. I managed to subscribe to several feeds that I would like to follow and will read them daily. For me the search tool “Syndic8” seemed very complex and a little confusing. The web page was extremely cluttered with various links to different content feeds. As a new user of the RSS function, I am still not sure of what exactly I want to subscribe to, so the less busy it looks the better. During my exploration, I was surprised to find that just about every website and blog has the capability of RSS feed. The options are limitless when it comes to decisions about what to include in your reader and what to leave out. I just kept it simple and chose a few feeds to subscribe to the discuss history. I will monitor them for a while to see if I need to add any feeds that might better fit my desires. I was really drawn to the Google search tool for finding different feeds. Since I enjoy reading the news headlines, I am mostly attracted to news type feeds that discuss the day’s events from a global perspective. I will let everyone know what I find out.