RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism [ABSTRACT]
Jinfo Blog
1st March 2008
By Martin Belam
Abstract
The great promise of RSS feeds was that they would save us from information overload. However, when subscribing to more feeds every day is just a click away, we can all too easily become swamped by the very mechanism that was meant to help us.
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The great promise of RSS feeds was that they would save us from information overload. However, when subscribing to more feeds every day is just a click away, we can all too easily become swamped by the very mechanism that was meant to help us.
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