I am following up on the "how to" post from a little while ago, which explained how to get the RSS feed from this blog into your favorite reader. It turns out, that many folks are not aware of the amazing benefits of RSS. Here is a little video to help explain it (don't take my word for it):
A big "Thanks" to Jennifer Texada, social media guru at MDACC, for alerting me to this vid!
I hear you saying - "OK, so I am going to all this trouble just to read YOUR blog. You must be kidding - that's not worth the effort..."
Wrong. There are literally thousands of useful RSS feeds out there, and it is increasingly dominating the way information is served. Most major journals put our their electronic table of contents out by RSS. So instead of these piling up in your email, and quickly getting lost, you can find them in your RSS reader - when you want to look them over. New items can be distinguished here, just like in your email.
But there is something even cooler about RSS - you can use it to easily set up search robots. A simple example is any News search on Google, which can be turned into an RSS feed. Once you have an RSS reader, you will discover many things that you can track.
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