#4 (23 Things)

Q:It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of blogs out there - how do you handle information overload and how do you think RSS might help with that?

I find that RSS feed are a good, temporary way to find and filter information about a specific topic or from a specific site or set of sites.

The downside is: often the information comes from questionable sources with some pretty odd sets of standards, and failure to personally 'vet' the sites for quality, accuracy and so on, can leave you with the equivalent of a term paper constructed of Wikipedia quotes... Not so good.

RSS is fine if you are confident of the source. Otherwise it's just a fast way to collect a binful of garbage.