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Google Reader has been my feed reader of choice for awhile now, but it has never achieved the status of a must-have application that I cannot live without. It was only recently that I recognized the reason I have never wholeheartedly embraced it is because I believe it is designed in a way that creates a drag on my personal Getting Things Done (GTD) system; which for me lessens my desire both consciously and subconsciously to make it part of my daily routine.

A Quick Introduction to RSS

October 17, 2008

Since I started this blog, I have had more people than I would have expected ask me about how RSS feeds work, how they can set up a feed of this blog on their iGoogle page, and other similar questions. What follows is a short overview of RSS and how you can use it to subscribe to a website’s feed.