RSS (Real Simple Sindication) is the best way to keep up to date with websites, blogs or other sources of information. The CommonCraft video RSS in Plain English offers one of the best explanations for how RSS works and what you need to use it.

We highly recommend using the Google Reader to manage and view your RSS feeds because it is the simplest and most effective tool that we have found to date. It is fully web based and so you can access your RSS feeds from anywhere that you have internet access and a browser. If you already have a gmail account then you have access to google reader and just need to click on Reader from the top left menu when you log into  your gmail account.

To subscribe to this or any other blog all you have to do is look for and click on the RSS icon. Most sites will automatically take you to a page that will add the RSS feed to your google reader.

Links:

• Google Reader
• Bloglines
• NewsGator
• Yahoo