I guess there still must be people out there who haven't discovered RSS, a.k.a. Really Simple Syndication (and sometimes called "webfeeds"), an easy way to get news, job listings, and classifieds delivered straight to your desktop.
The subject of RSS news feeds happened to come up when I talked yesterday with an old friend and longtime online news professional. I was shocked to learn that this person never had tried RSS.
If you aren't using a news reader, don't wait any longer. Everything you need to know can be found at
WebReference.com. Many readers are free and most feeds are free. And some Web browsers now have RSS readers built in.
Personally, I'm addicted -- enough so that I have RSS readers on my desktop PC, my laptop, and my PDA-phone. My reader of choice,
SharpReader, a free program, enables me to keep up with my favorite sites in a fraction of the time it used to take to visit them each day.
I agree, I think RSS is the wave of the...
