I found this article on point with what I've been discussing of late. In the this article published today, entitled One-stop way to read news, blogs online / RSS allows users to get free, automatic feeds there are a few points of interest.

This article talks about how RSS feeds are used to streamline information management and consumption and allows you to target specific information sources you must have to be productive in work and play.

RSS feeds can indeed be a big convenience and time saver.

Some interesting stats from this article:


  • 12, 000 new blogs are created daily or 1 every 7.4 seconds

  • Only 32.1 percent of all blogs offer RSS feeds




Technorati is the quoted source for these statistics.

This article also talks about the future of RSS being a delivery mechanism for rich media content such ...   more »