Thing 15

I have still not made RSS a habit. I went ahead and added a few more news feeds ( Rolling Stone, Fast Company, Publisher's Weekly)and skimmed through the two hundred feed updates that I had accumulated since last I checked (earlier this week. I am not finding skimming all that beneficial as most of what I collect I end up marking as read (whether I have given it my full attention or not. I also played with subscribing to a delicious tag. I decided to try and follow feeds on one of my favorite authors, Jose Saramago. Potentially, this could reap some benefits as I am unfamiliar with the Portuguese sources that Saramago's name returned. If these sources turn out to offer bilingual posts, I will have found a tool that rivals Google or Yahoo where typically my searches are monolingual. Being able to filter according to popularity may help me identify those fan communities that delve deeper than Blindness or Seeing and appreciate Saramago's work in its entirety. If social mobs are to be "value-added", I think they will need to be polyglot global communities of contributors versed in something more than the most recent fads. I yearn for expert communities of affinity.