RSSs: Environmental Friendly (Week 4)

So I doin' my assignment for library class and the teacher has us check out RSSs. After setting my account I begin subscribing to 'bulk groups' of resources... such as News 100 and Sports 100. Then I sit and read articles for the next hour and finally decide to hit the sack.

So begins a new day and my daily routine of reading the paper... I open the front page, nothing new here... over to the sports section, again, nothing new here.... I make it to the comics and my newspaper reading experience is validated. Finally something I did not see the previous night in my RSS groups.

Wow.... just think how much money the news papers can save if they just need to print the comics. Because with the invention of RSSs, newspapers will no longer need to cut down trees to create newsprint.

I am torn with knowing about RSSs. Traditionally, (some) males are slow to change and they can only change so much at a time. For example, I was very happy when I went to my Yahoo Page and saw the top headlines for the day... and if I wanted to read more I could just click. There is usually 7-9 teasers and the headline usually tells enough not to have to click on the link. This way I was still able to read my newspaper... back to males not changing. I have read the news paper for the past 25 years. It is part of my daily routine.

In comes RSSs and me being ADD (more self diagnosed) I will spend hours skimming and clicking... that can be a bad thing. I will be very well informed and up to date but in theory, I might not get much of anything else done. At least with news papers, you have a finite amount of material to read or skim and the experience is completed. With RSSs and the WWW the possibilities are endless.

I truly think that RSSs are the wave of the future. I don't know if they will actually put newspapers out of business, but the overhead of RSSs is far less than printing a newspaper everyday. And as each new generation is more and more attached to computers and texting/cell phones (most now available with data connection), they will have to be shown what a news paper is (or was) because it will not be common knowledge as they have never been exposed to one (kind of like records... those big black pieces of vinyl that make noise... OR a watch).