#8 RSS

I think the reason why I've steered clear of blogs and reading news articles online in the past is because the amount of time this takes up - as the exercise points out, you have to scroll through a lot of stuff you're not interested in and pages can take ages to load up, etc. The RSS feeds are a really good solution to this - they are a quick one-stop shop and I can see myself taking more interest in blogs and other online resources in future knowing that I can utilise a tool like Bloglines. Now that I know about this I think that blogs and sites that don't offer a RSS feed will perhaps become less popular because most people don't have the time to check several individual sites.