Here’s an interesting take from Greg Hughes on the effect that webfeeds can have on a daily routine:
My webfeed reader saves me about 300 hours a week
I read an incredible amount of information these days. So much more than I ever did, and a lot of it on the Internet. Not only that, but I get the information I need (or want) so fast now that I can practically always act faster than most people when news breaks. Research that used to take hours and hours of searching and browsing now takes just minutes. I’m consuming much, much more information and doing so in much, much less time. What I can accomplish today in the information gathering department would have taken two of me just a year or so ago, before I found the real beauty of RSS.
It’s an opinion that I can definitely back up – I’m currently subscribed to about 180 webfeeds, and although not all of those have articles at any one time, there would have been simply no way that I would have been able to keep up with 180 separate websites. But because it’s possible to quickly scan each feed, it’s possible to rattle through this lot in about 25 – 30 minutes. End result: I’m better informed, and (hopefully) as a result, more productive.
And where did I see this article? On a webfeed, naturally…
