Friday, July 25, 2008

Catch-up!! (RSS Feeds)

I think I am missing something with RSS Feeds. I will have to make them more useful to me, but right now it seems like more spam to weed through. What am I doing wrong? Anyway I will write more in my next posts. Hope everyone else is doing great in the challenge, and are not as far behind as me.

1 comment:

gypsyharper said...

I'm behind too! (I set up my RSS feeds, but haven't blogged about them yet).

I think the key with RSS feeds is to use them to read things you would have read anyway - then it saves you the time of going out to each website. The beauty of it is, if you find you've subscribed to a feed that you never really read, you can just unsubscribe. I totally need to prune mine again - I got all excited about all these cool blogs, but I can't keep up with reading them all.

Oh, and some of them may be actual spam if someone has hacked the feed. I subscribe to Planet Cataloging (a whole conglomerate of feeds!) and they recently added a new blog to their line-up. But something went wrong and suddenly my unread had balloned to over 200! I was like "what's going on here?" but it turned out to be spam. Grrr.