Emily Explains RSS Feeds

I have heard many of my co-workers complain about the RSS Feeds lesson being really difficult, but I didn't find it too challenging. When I set up my Google Reader account it helpfully asked if I would like to add "bundles" of feeds, which were packages of about 6 different sites that I could add all at once. Thank you again Google, you always know exactly what I want(where would we be without Google? If they decided to take over the world I probably wouldn't be too upset. Who wouldn't want to live in Googlandia? Or Googlemerica? Or The United States of Google?). So once I whittled down the list of feeds, taking out a few I didn't really want, it didn't seem too hard. I was able to get the 10 feeds required for the lesson and add a few I found on my own in about 20 minutes from start to finish. The only thing I don't like about feeds is from some sites you never really know what you're going to get from it. For example, YouTube. I thought it sounded like a fun feed to have, seeing as YouTube is sometimes amusing, but all I got in my feeds were some videos that I can only assume were Polish. Not too helpful. But, even more unhelpful were the so called "search tools" Topix, Syndic8, and Technorati(or as I affectionately call it Techno-lame-i). After having had a day to consider RSS Feeds I have decided that I don't really care about them. I don't look at so many websites that it is all that useful for me and the "search engines" are terrible. So...thumbs down!