RSS Feeds

I recently unraveled the power of RSS feeds displayed in many websites. I used to notice that little orange XML image in websites like NY times, CNN etc. but never took the time to find out how it works and why it even exists. While on my trip to Malaysia, I had some time to kill and decided to find out what RSS feeds are all about. When I found out that it was all about news delivered to my laptop without me having to go to various websites, it made me excited. I then started thinking about various places that I could put this to use. Like for instance, I always wondered how I could communicate my updates to my blog. RSS seems to be an elegant way to do it. All I have to do is to get all my blog readers to first install a RSS feed reader and make them subscribe to my feed. I wish this would be as common as instant messengers. Many people do not even know about this phenomenon.
Anyways, I installed a RSS feed reader from http://www.feedreader.com . I now subscribe to about 8 different news sources and I get the latest news delivered to my laptop every 30 mins. This is amazing. I wish people would realize the power of this and make use of it.