Web 2.0: RSS

A word of warning: While I have been Little Miss Sunshine so far in Web 2.0, today I have my grouchy pants on!

I was successful in setting up RSS feeds. I waited fquite a while to get my confirmation e-mail back from bloglines, which was odd. Tried- many times- and finally gave up on setting up a blog on the site. The process for setting up a blog was confusing and frustrating! Blogger was a lot easier. Spent some time surfing my feeds and was a little underwhelmed...if that's a word. I can see how it's great for someone who follows dozens of blogs, but for an average person like me it's no big deal.

I understand the concept of RSS, and I am glad for the exercise in playing around with Bloglines, but the question I have is why do I have to create a user profile in yet another website just to get something that seems to be a pretty simple piece of computer programming? Is it really that tough to just save your favourite blogs in your web browsers "favourites" tab? Sure you would actually have to visit the sites from time to time to see if they've been updated, but if we can find two hours a day to spend on facebook, I think we can waste a second or two seeing if a blog has been updated. I guess it would be a different story for someone who follows a great many blogs.

Whether you find it useful or not, I predict that sites like Bloglines are doomed. Why? Because creating a list of favourite sites and getting feeds whenever they are updated is something that could be built right into your web-browser! And if someone like me has figured that out then you can bet the big brains at Microsoft or FireFox are going to roll that out sometime in the next 15 minutes, and we'll all have one less password to remember.