the world, or part of it

Since blogs have really dominated the web culture recently, everyone has jumped aboard the RSS train. RSS is a great technology to accomodate all of the weblogs out there and it is especially helpful for someone who checks a lot of blogs in one day. When I first downloaded Firefox in November 2004, I was not really sure what the RSS hype is all about. I guess it was because I only checked a few blogs a day and many sites still did not have RSS up and running. Over the past year and a half, I have switched sides.

I am all over the blogosphere now, and it is really hard to remember all of the sites you would like to see in one day, but henever I was making my way around a few dozen sites, I started to realize how much of a help it really is. I quickly subscribed to all of my favorite blogs and RSS-enabled sites and I didn’t regret it at all. I was able to check wired.com and my friends sites and I could do it a lot quicker. Now that I am checking out tons of weblogs, it is almost getting to be an inconvenience to see the long list of posts I should check out. I realized that I bit off more than I can chew.

Now it isnt very fair for me to blame RSS for my increased blog appetite, but I need some kind of scapegoat. Getting through the loads of new updates is beginning to be a chore. The only relief I get is on the weekends when most new sites are posting and some bloggers are taking some time off. The technology is great, but maybe I was better off trying to remember sites because I usually would only check a handful of the total blogs anyway. My desire for all of these RSS feeds is going to have to stop growing sometime, but unfortunately the web wont.