Thing 6: RSS and Newsreaders

I was never really sure what an RSS feed was until now.  I surf around and explore blogs all the time, and in the past I "subscribed" to some of them.  I say "subscribed" because I'm not sure what I did exactly; I just know that my inbox was filling up with tons and tons of blog posts, and I couldn't possibly read all of them, and it took all the fun out of perusing my favorite blog, and I ultimately just "unfollowed" them all.  Long story short--I've been afraid to "follow" anything for awhile now, and I've avoided that little orange button.  Instead, to keep track of my favorite blogs (and there are MANY), I created bookmark folders, where I saved a list of the web address of my favorites.  It works just fine.  But today I created a Bloglines account. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, but I think I might like this.  I subscribed to the feeds of various blogs, including some education ones like Dangerously Irrelevant, which I discovered as I was reading Nathan's blog.  It looks intriguing.  Going back to the Bloglines concept, though, I'm not sure sure that I won't just start adding interesting feeds right and left, which kind of defeats the point, right?  The whole point is to make exploring the Internet more streamlined, more convenient. If I go RSS feed crazy, I'll feel overwhelmed by all the posts.  I might just stick to saving the addresses of my favorite blogs in my "favorites" folder or bookmarking them in the folders I've created.  They're neat and tidy and organized there.