There is a lot of discussion around the Blogosphere about developments in RSS news readers, and ways to gather information. Seems to me that the whole notion of how we gather our ‘info-feeds’ is something that we should be looking at as an aspect of information literacy – particularly in the context of what we are doing in education. Need to do some digging on this.
Meanwhile, feed readers continue to develop, though the vote is still out on what the final and best solution will be.
” News readers are becoming more and more indispensable as people turn to blogs for their news – and even major news sites are making increasing use of RSS feeds. Being able to take that content wherever you go – online or offline, is going to become very important.”
Read Rich RSS Readers: best of breed picks from Richard McManus to understand your options, and perhaps review your choices.