I was catching up on bills and such things, and I discovered that my bank, both my credit cards, and my savings account have RSS feeds...Really Simple Syndication is everywhere. Perhaps I never noticed it before, but I am much more aware of seeing the symbol and acronym in my meanderings of the WWW.
Even on MabryOnline.org, the principal of the school even described how it worked and how people could use it to access resources on his school's website. More than podcasts, RSS feeds can be used to aggregate blogs, newsletters, and other forms of communications between organizations and the individual.
One of my students inquired on Friday as I handed out the usual stack of flyers, "Do you think that someday we won't have paper and messages can be sent to parents using only computers?" I smiled, and we discussed the advantages of such a society and how ours seems to be headed in that direction. Over the weekend, through my research, I am starting to see how close we are. Like the founder of Wikipedia says, "the future is upon us". Technology is changing the way in which humans communicate and knowledge is disseminated. We are part of the future if we choose to be.
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We can only hope things could be this easy in all aspects of our everyday lives. RSS has been a great help when it comes to checking on updates for numerous websites I visit often. I am glad to see you are getting so much from these activities!!!!
I agree that rss is everywhere. I don't even check my email at gmail anymore. I check the rss, for everything from my blog and facebook being updated to finding out sports scores and new articles about world of warcraft. I am wondering how I lived without rss.
Renaldo
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