Aaron Saray's Diary

If you've got an interesting blog, have an RSS Feed!

RSS Feeds have become the main way I track so much stuff on the internet these days.  I have over 100 blogs that I find interesting from time to time - or that have useful information (these range from google's blogs to security vendors and friends personal blogs).  It would be insane to have each one book marked and visit it each day.  Instead, I use a RSS reader to subscribe to all of their RSS feeds.  Most quality blogs are using RSS to feature the top 10 newest entries (or some derivative of this).  When a new entry comes out, the RSS feed is refreshed.  My reader is smart enough to make the distinction between the entries I've already read and the new ones.  So for each update, usually the newest entry is the only one that shows up.  This way, when I wake up in the morning, I've only got about 100 articles that I can skim the headlines and summary (this takes remarkably less time than you'd think - usually less than 15 mins).

My gripe is the blogs, diaries, tutorial centers that do NOT have RSS feeds (even some forum software packages now keep an rss feed of the top 10 posts or whatever).  I usually will take a look over all the content and then e-scamper off.  I have found RSS and its here to stay - its even relatively easy to set up!  This just means that those blogs that don't have RSS are losing out on some readers... which is unfortunate.