RSS reader offers a new way to collect and arrange web resources. First, it helps us to be updated with web information. For example, if we want to keep updated with our friends' blogs, we don't have to visit their websites separately. Instead, RSS reader will show all the newest posts in their blogs. This function can also be applied for searching non-personal information, e.g. latest news about global warming. Second, it help us to organize online resources. We can easily create several folders for different subjects. Besides, we can choose and save valuable information by clicking the star mark on the left side of the title. If we want to review these websites again in the future, we can find them in the “starred items”. Also, if there is too much information that marked “unread” while we find them not worth surfing, we can click “mark as all read”. If we don’t want to get more information from the website, we can delete it in “settings”. In short, as we used google to search information, we may feel “passive” because we were “given” information, and we had to visit websites one by one to get details. With RSS reader, we may save a lot of time by reading the updated titles of the web information.
The constraint of RSS reader may be that the titles may not the latest. I think we can use traditional google search as a back up.
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Well written article.
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