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RSS is often dubbed Really Simple Syndication. It's a standard based on XML, and provides a means of subscribing to feeds with an aggregator. This week, I was tasked with using one such aggregator to subscribe to several RSS feeds and evaluate my experience.
RSS is good in that it lets you keep up to date with the latest news, blogs, social media and so forth. It also saves time by retrieving said feeds automatically, and displays them in a single place, without having to go to each individual site to which you're subscribed.
The concept is good in theory, but I've also come across some drawbacks; after subscribing to a few feeds, there's an encumberance of updates, and it becomes tedious to sift through all of them. This in itself wouldn't be particularly bad, but I've found most of the posts of the feeds are themselves tedious. It could be that the feeds to which I'm subscribed are sub-par, but reading some of the other blogs, there seems to be a consensus. Unfortunately, I've found myself ignoring the feed and tending towards the main sites.
In short, RSS is a very good concept, which hasn't been executed as well as it perhaps could have been.
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