If you regularly visit blogs to see what's new only to find nothing has been updated, then RSS is probably a good timesaver for you. We have offered a brief primer on RSS on this blog in the past, and Challies has just posted a helpful explanation also.

One of the best things about RSS feeds, is the ability to keep up with those blogs that are rarely updated. If you are a regular blog reader, you know that almost all of the popular ones are updated close to daily if not more often. But there are many more out there that are also worth reading but that seem like they almost never have new material. With a feed reader, you can subscribe to these blogs and then forget about them, because you'll be notified when they are updated.

For me, this means I can keep up with friends, relatives, missionaries, and Mark Driscoll without ever going to their sites. These people are not committed bloggers, but I still want to know what they have to say and what's going on with them. If I did go to their blogs, it would be highly unlikely to find anything new, but with RSS, I can read everything they post without ever having to remember to look.