RSS, XML, RSS Feeders, Newsreader accounts....never heard of any of that until reaching this part of the Learning 2.0 program. Was beginning to dread doing this step of the program with all the new jargon and signing up to yet another account, it all seemed pretty daunting...until I went ahead (with a lets get this step over with attitude) and did it. Turned out to be pretty addictive once getting the basic jist of it and before realising it, was into doing Thing #9 and LIKING it! (Yes I'm a geek).
RSS/XML feeds are a handy lil' invention for those of us on dial up, your favorite sites that are RSS enabled can be put into the one internet account for text based summaries on anything that has been updated, rather than opening webpage after webpage and waiting for all the graphics (mostly adverts) to load. That lot of hoo-har will hopefully make more sense if you have heard of this before, or have done this step, if not, believe all the hype about this being something that will save time when surfing the net and trying to keep up to date with your favorite sites.
Found both the C:Net and the Palinet "Feed Me..." video clips along with the Using Bloglines Tutorial really helpful as an introduction to it all.
Something to consider: If your Bloglines username is your email address, as it was for me, on the Bloglines site go to: Home - My Account - Blog Settings to create a username (I used the same username as this blog), otherwise your email address will show up in the URL - could end up revealing your identity and giving out your email address.
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