RSS and Why You Should Care

There seems to be a difference of opinion. RSS is either going to revolutionize the way people receive new online content OR it's way too complicated for most of them to deal with. Another possibility: it may land someplace in the middle. I'm voting for that. I'm thinking a less complicated way to receive RSS feeds will emerge in the next several years and the old-style RSS will be voted off the island. At the very least, the feed aggregator part of it will get the boot.

Until an updated model comes along, however, RSS is the absolute best way to keep on top of new online content. The University of Wisconsin's Ebling Health Sciences Library has put a lot of work into the RSS section of their web site. They've collected the URLs for an incredible number of medical journals and arranged them both by specialty and alphabetically so that you can add them to a feed reader such as Bloglines. I just love librarians, don't you? BTW, if you're interested in looking at the current tables of contents for specific journals and don't understand any of the above, please give me a call at 415-206-6639. I'm standing by the phone. Sitting actually.