Thing 5

I'm certainly clueless about the computer programming that makes RSS possible....but I think (unless proven otherwise) that I have a fairly good understanding of its purpose and possible uses. I can see it being tremendously helpful in tracking student blog assignments as well as keeping up with posts of a personal interest. I was able to subscribe to blogs easily except for the bookmarklet method, but I think that has more to do with my computer's security settings than anything else. Cutting and pasting the RSS subscribe link into Bloglines allowed me to get around the problem. Once again the questions is how much info is too much--I was surprised by the number of posts Bloglines generated, even though I didn't think I had subscribed to all that many blogs, and wonder again where my own limit for usefulness is. If there is too much info, I'll be inclined to tune it out. I think it will take some trial and error, but overall I'm glad to have more experience with this type of technology.