RSS feeds are something I'd never heard of before this assignment. I'd seen the orange symbol floating around on different sites for some time, but never really decided to look into it further. It seems like a really cool concept: I know that when I have a few minutes with nothing else to do, I flip through bookmarked web pages compulsively just to see what's new, even if nothing is. This might help save me a bit of time and effort, if I can find which sites I frequent use RSS. It's nice to be able to see at a glance the headlines of all of the niche news sites I visit. It's definitely a tool I think I'll play around with some more.
Professionally, I think that this could be used in a number of ways, particularly for PR or Advertising majors. You could keep in touch with world news and stay up to date with cultural, worldly, and pop culture trends. Additionally, you could track web pages of clients/pages that are surfed by target demographics to see how best to appeal to them. For those that read a number of blogs, this is a great help as well, just loading up one page to see what's new with all of them.
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