The New Killer App For Educators  

RSS is a technology that will change your life, if you let it.over the last few years; it has become one of the building block for personal learning curriculum I have constructed for myself also called aggregator  or feed collector .The aggregator check the feeds you subscribe to, usually every hour and it collects all the new content  from those sites you are subscribed to.

A bit of advice: go slowing. If you really want to understand the potential of RSS,take a week or two to work  through the techniques.

bloggers who use their full names more than anonymous authors. It also give the opportunity to see if I can find out more about them through a Google search

Reader has a pretty cool option that lets you create your own bloggy page of items that you find most interesting so other people on the Web can read those items too. So, you've got your favorite Weblog and media feeds in your aggregator, and you're starting to get the hang of this "getting the good stuff when I want it" concept. Weblog software like WordPress and Blogger allow you to import RSS feeds into pages you create for your or your students' sites. It's one reason why I think RSS could be a great help for the media- and information-literacy skills students lack.       

RSS is a powerful, flexible tool that I think will be changing our information gathering habits for years to come. If you don't try any other tool in this book, you simply have to start using RSS. Remember: Resistance is futile