Well, I have been using Google Reader for a couple days now and I can say that I am overwhelmed. I went from not getting any pertinent news from the web to having so many feeds I am not sure I can keep up. I am already having to put together a serious time budget to be able to juggle the new class work with my already overwhelming business and family life. I am not complaining, just a little taken back at the amount of content that is generated on the web each day... I only hve about 10 RSS sources feeding in each day and I have hundreds of posts to read. Some superflous, some with some great insight.
I did find and comment on one today advertising an event in my area. The Google Apps for Education California Summit which is being held this summer in Santa Clara... which is right down the road from me. I signed up already for myself and my wife who is a 2nd and 3rd grade teacher.
I certianly have learned that you need to discriminate which sources you subscribe to. Many will not bring you the information you want, but if you are careful, you can get up-to-date news on anything you want.
Over the last couple of days I can see that some of the sites that I subscribed to don't do much in the way of updates, two of them no new information at all in three days. Others, like Free Technology For Teachers has multiple feeds each day on new hardware and software specific to the classroom.
Now that I have learned about RSS feeds, I can see that it would be helpful in many of my business ventures to stay up on technology, current events and market trends. I don't have the time, or make the time, each day to go out searching for the information, but if I can have it pushed to me, it would be more effecient for me to stay on top of things.
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