RSS - Good or Bad?

I’ve been using RSS feeds long before we got this assignment and they’ve brought nothing but ease and joy into my life. To be honest I don’t actually see anything bad about RSS feeds.

In this day and age which is full of technology and information, it can sometimes be hard finding what you’re looking for online. The amount of content available on the Internet is so vast and ever growing, which is good and bad. Good in the sense that its an unlimited source of information and bad in the sense that its also full of pointless and more times than often, wrong information. The thing that’s good about RSS feeds is that it cuts out the time you spend searching for something, by delivering it straight to you. Some people may say that you still get all the pointless stuff as well, but with RSS you get control of what you receive. You can choose what sources you subscribe to, so if you prefer hearing about games from gamespot.com rather than ign.com then you simply subscribe to the gamespot.com feed and you get all the information about upcoming games from that site and no other. Another good thing is that you can subscribe to a vast number of things, ranging from your friends blog, to news on the war in Iraq.

     

RSS feeds have helped my practice because it has allowed me to search through posts about Maya techniques, upcoming games, the latest gadgets, the list goes on…and its all in perfect bite size chunks. This means I can flick through all my feeds on gadgets, and just select the ones that interest me and “star” them so that I can go back to them and read through them thoroughly. It also means I can keep track of all the latest things going on that interest me without having to search multiple websites and having a million tabs open on my browser. Instead I just go to my google reader and everything is organised for me.

So overall in my opinion RSS is good, if not great, and it has helped me a lot and I can imagine ill be using them for many years to come.