The RSS program I am using is Google Reader. Last week after class, I subscribed to my 2 favourite blogs: Cake Wrecks (my new fave) and Perez Hilton (the ultimate guilty pleasure in celebrity gossip).
So the thing with using Google Reader is that instead of having to visit a number of different websites, the news is compiled and delivered to you once there are updates. I have to say, I had a lot of difficulty using Google Reader for this task. It wasn't because the program itself was hard to use. It was quite easy actually, since it's like receiving email notifications from your subscribed blogs/news sites. The difficulty I encountered was in actually remembering to check Google Reader for new items instead of going directly to the websites!
Part of my daily computer routine is to go through all my favourite news sites to see what's new. It was only AFTER I had visited the websites that I realized I was supposed to check Google Reader first! And of course, when I did log on, I had already read the new items I received.
For this task, the benefits of programs like Google Reader were properly highlighted. We only had to subscribe to 2 websites, so it was easy to forget to check in regularly. However, if I subscribed to 10 different websites, it would definitely be useful to have all updates be viewable in one central location.
I do not follow too many blogs and I don't check the news every single day. So, for my purposes, I probably would not use programs like Google Reader. If anything, I am more than happy to follow my regular routine of just visiting websites themselves, the old-fashioned way.
What can I say? Old habits die hard.
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