Ok, I have set up my RSS feeds. To be perfectly honest, I have no need for RSS feeds in my life - personal or professional. I think, as it is, we are all bombarded by information from all angles every day. So why would I subscribe to another thing that I have to sign up for, sign into, and spend time reading? I see how these would be helpful, especially if you had a job as a reporter for a newspaper or some other job where you need to be on top of information from multiple sources quickly. In my job, somebody comes in with a question and I search for the answer right there and then. Does it help to be on top of current trends and information? Of course. However, I already find myself saying, several times a day, "I was just reading about..." without needing to be hooked into an RSS feed.
Something that really bothered me is the fact that I signed up for a friend's political blog, and anywhere he has video embedded shows up in the RSS feed as a continual list of pornographic language. What's up with that? It makes me ask what kind of filtering there is on these RSS feed sites. If I asked students to sign up for these, will they see something similar?
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