Have I ever mentioned what a useful tool I think RSS can be? I think I might have mentioned that a time or two. RSS makes it possible to broaden our information networks and manage a tremendous flow of information. When I talk about RSS to competitive intelligence audiences I call it “drinking from the firehose.”
As I’ve been working to rebuild this blog I’ve begun exploring ways that I can improve my own use of RSS to share information, and indirectly exploring the potential of RSS to allow teams to collaborate. I’m trying to figure out how to best incorporate RSS feeds of the news items that I find each day into this blog, and I’m impatient for my Movable Type and CSS knowledge to improve. I don’t get the chance to sit down and write blog entries as often as I would like, but I am constantly sharing items in Google Reader (my RSS aggregator of choice after years using the NetNewsWire client on my Mac– a program I still think is terrific, actually). I’d like to figure this out so that short of writing a full blog entry I would like to be able to say “Hey, take a look at this!” several times a day.
So let me take a stab at this: here is an embedded feed of my latest shared items from Google Reader. Let’s see if this works with the page layout (one of the challenges that I’m having.
