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January 02, 2009

(+) RSS and Newsreaders Explained

Your paperboy just got smarter. This article will tell you how to read more information on the Internet in a shorter period of time. In short, you can use the Internet without all the clutter.

I used to spend 2 or 3 hours per day visiting specific web sites over and over in an attempt to find new information. I regularly visited CNN.com looking for news, weather.com looking for the latest weather forecast for my home town, various stock market web sites, and, of course, genealogy sites looking for information about a variety of topics.

Today I can accomplish the same thing within a very few minutes instead of spending hours searching for elusive information.

Today I "subscribe" to CNN.com, weather.com, and many other web sites. New information automatically appears on my computer's screen whenever I want; I no longer have to open a web browser to visit dozens of web sites in search of new information. The result is in the a form of a "custom newspaper" designed for me, containing new information about topics of interest to me.

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