Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Revving Up Your RSS Feeds with Dr. David Parry

Once again, Dr. David Parry has agreed to share his tech wisdom with Adjunct Advice.  Rather than going for a broad sense of technology, this interview focuses exclusively on the effective and efficient use of RSS feeds.  As this interview demonstrates, RSS is much easier to use and more powerful when you organize your feeds.  In addition to this interview, I suggest you read David’s own article about RSS feeds here.

Dr. David Perry is an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media at the University of Texas in Dallas.

RSS feeds seem like a great tool, but I find myself never having enough time to read them.  I suspect I have sloppy RSS habits.  Can you offer any secrets to effective RSS feed management (just like file management)?

I think we should probably distinguish between two things here for the sake of understanding how I use feeds: one is the practice of collecting and organizing feeds; the second is the process of reading these feeds. Now clearly the first is always with an eye towards the later, that is I organize them in such a way as to facilitate reading practices, but for the sake of answering these questions it is probably useful to keep them separate.

I currently subscribe to about 230 feeds, plus …

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