Open The Dialogue

Over the weekend, Dave Winer posted a link to Sue Polinsky's item at Download Squad about RSS, where she asked "Why do you care about RSS?" in her title. She mentions some things that I see every day, about how you really don't have an event without something about RSS being mentioned, and has the same attitude that Chris and I do about it - once you really start using it, you kind of don't know how you used it beforehand.

A few days ago, I showed someone how I read my feeds on my laptop, to scan headlines and find news for posting in our fun and exciting Links Of The Day posts, on my other blogs, or to just keep an eye on what's going on any and everywhere. It's a rough task made simple, and while it's hard managing hundreds and hundreds of feeds, RSS helps you realize that you don't have to read *everything* nor do you have to go to those hundreds of Websites individually, like you used to, it's easy to grasp how powerful of a tool RSS is - and that's just the simplistic way of looking at it as the solution for news and information distribution to readers. So, I'd ask that you post why you love RSS, either here or over at Polinsky's Download Squad post.