B2Bridge

Last week, I finally became an RSS adept. I even became a heavy promotor of RSS feeds. I was not for months, although many people tried well to convince me. Main reason was that I did not have enough reason to open the seperate feed reader. I preferred e-mail warnings from my favorite sources like B2Bridge, Forrester and Tijd. Those e-mail warnings arrived in the same inbox I was already scanning a couple of times a day for my business. That made the e-mail warnings a much faster source of information than surfing out to a seperate feed reader. Moreover, the e-mails provided me on the spot with enough information to decide whether an in-depth reading was going to be interesting or not. So why surf out to yet another web page and loose valuable time? I now know I do not have to.

Last week, I made iGoogle the default homepage in my browser. I also added Google Reader as a gadget on the same desktop with Gmail, Google Finance and some RSS feeds from the Belgian news television and Financial Times.

As soon as I now open my browser, I have all the information I need on one desktop. I do not have to go look for something on some other website like bloglines, since all the info I need is immediately shown on one screen. And now, RSS has won the race from email warnings. I am even going to switch off the e-mail warnings from de Tijd, since I discovered this morning that I know all I should know, before I had the time to read those mails.

Moreover, I became a frequent watcher of the VRT news again. Their RSS feed shows three news items and they regularly add the latest topics. Enough to stay posted about what's going on in Belgian politics.