Use an RSS Reader as Your Automatic Web Surfer

I read quite a number of blogs ever week, but I spend very little time "surfing the Web."  Instead, I subscribe to blogs using RSS, or Real Simple Syndication.  My RSS Reader is Google Reader.  When I find a new blog that I like, I subscribe to it by looking for the following image and clicking on it.

If you want to understand RSS better, you should take a look at this video from CommonCraft: