Wow! Learning about RSS feeds has been mind-expanding. It continues to amaze me how much information is available in the cyber-world. On the other hand, it is overwhelming how much information is available in the cyber-world. And the nagging thought, as I add feeds and explore everything I can tap into, is...how important is all of this information anyway? How much of it do we really take in and synthesize into knowledge or integrate into life wisdom?
Philosophy aside, it is good to know the meaning of "RSS" and "XML", it was fun to create a collection of feeds and it took alot more than 20 minutes to do either lessons #7 or #8. It will be interesting to see which RSS feeds continue to be useful and fun to keep up with and which I will eventually dump or replace.
I found it much easier to go to my favorite sites or to just do Google searches for interesting sites than to use the RSS search tools. I thought they all gave strange and unexpected results for my searches. And I did, finally, reach a saturation point in using the RSS search tools. I came to feel like there is alot of useless "information" out there and that there is a time for feeding my mind and a time for feeding my body and soul...so now it is time for some quiet music, playing with my kitty cat and clearing my mind so it doesn't get "overstuffed".
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