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If you haven't jumped on the RSS bandwagon, you really need to investigate it. RSS is basically a way to subscribe to websites or your favorite blog. Instead of navigating the web using your traditional bookmarks, you read everything now through your RSS reader. There are regular clients that you install on your machine, but the most popular are the web based feed readers. I can't recommend Google Reader enough. This one tool has changed the way I interact with the 'Net. In a distant second place is bloglines. The key to the web feed reader, is the fact that you can use it on any machine with a internet connection. Work, home, kiosk, all your settings and "currently read" items will propagate accordingly.

So, you take your favorite websites, blogs, etc and add them to your reader. Anytime content is added to any of the sites you subscribe to, the "Items unread" amount will increase accordingly. Now you have all the places that you hit on the internet in one single location. I can't express how cool RSS is. It's something that you just have to try for your self. So, go check it out, you'll wonder how you got along with out it.

Now, Special Extra Bonus Content!

A really neat (and under-used, in my opinion) feature, is Google Readers "share" option. Each "article" in Google Reader has a row of options at the bottom. One of thes options is "Share". When you select this option, it will send that article to a prepared "Shared Items" page. A really slick looking webpage of your shared items. Cool! Below is my shared content, check it out, bet you will find at least SOMETHING you like.

My Google Reader Shared Item Page
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16018686749786887524

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