Of late, I seem to be having trouble with finding information for my posts.  Now don’t get me wrong, I have loads of sources.  In fact, the sheer amount of sources is the problem.  What with delicious, my RSS feeds, my twitter, my friend feed, Addictomatic, and of course the indomitable Google, I find myself lost in a bewildering and overwhelming information forest.  It the opposite of the old adage “can’t see the forest for the trees”.  I can’t see the trees for the forest! 

There has been a lot of buzz of late about “information diets”, and I never really understood until now.  In order to swim in this surging information stream, you have to be able to tame the currents.  I have begun to find my own ways of taming the currents:

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Have you ever wondered what an RSS feed is? Sounds interesting, maybe even relevant, but not enough to take the time to do some research and figure it out for yourself?

CultureFeast has done the research for you and found two excellent and easy-to-understand resources for you:

RSSDay.org is an excellent place to fill in your background and foundational knowledge on the subject. Would you rather just subscribe to some RSS feeds and figure out the what, where, and why on your own? Visit this Men with Pens post for simple step by step How To instructions on subscribing to feeds with Google Reader.

As always, you can ask us questions in the comment section below. We're sold on the value of getting to know our readers, and if we can help in the process, that's even better!

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