RSS is something new to me and probably not to the rest of the planet. I have not used RSS until I had taken IDT 351. I figured that it was just an add on for your tool bar and I really did not need anymore add-on's. I have heard about it from other classes but never really payed any attention to it. RSS is a way for you to keep track of new trends in whatever you may be interested in. For example I started getting RSS feeds from Wired.com. I am always interested in new technology and such. Since subscribing to the RSS, I have new developments in news coming to me, which is a change for me since I am always looking for the newest developments on my own. I have been using Google Reader for my RSS feeds, however, if you dont use Google much, you can always use the little symbol for RSS, sometimes located on your left hand side of your search bar. This symbol will show up if you are on a site which allows you to subscribe to new and site updates.
One issue I have with RSS is information overload. I believe that it can be overwhelming if you have to much information swamping your Google Reader and there is so much that you will not have time to look over the feeds. In class we discovered creating folders to help organize the feeds, and that there is a tool bar to search through the feeds, which is OK. I still need to find out what all Google Reader has to offer in terms of organization but for what I have seen so far, I like.
