BlogCritics Published an Article "Why aren’t you using RSS?" - Describes the importance, flexibility and useful applications of RSS
Chances are, you’re not entirely sure what the point of RSS is. I saw that little orange icon in Firefox, I’ve also seen their "live bookmarks" feature, which just looks cumbersome, and just never thought it could be helpful to me. Now, I wouldn’t live without it. Here’s why.
If you’re like me, you have a ton of sites bookmarked or on your favorites list, depending on your browser of choice. That browser should be Firefox, by the way, but that’s beside the point. You may have evolved and developed a list of maybe five, ten, fifteen sites you check every day to "stay in touch." RSS is a way you can be MORE in touch — with a higher number of sites — while doing less work.
Here’s what you do. Get an RSS reader; I’m using Sage for Firefox right now. There’s a search button in the Sage sidebar that searches for feeds of the site you’re currently reading (feeds are XML documents that provide updated content from a particular website).
