My thoughts on RSS feeds. Like most “new’ tools, this is just a re-packaged, re-named tool. RSS feeds are subscriptions. If you want to add the technical component, RSS feeds look suspiciously like the old backchannel program of the late 90’s. I loved that one because of the academic news channel. I suppose a real difference is that Backchannel was more of a news aggregator and delivered a lot of information in various channels to which one could subscribe. RSS feeds are much more individualized, rather like one a single channel rather than a whole network of channels.