Those are excellent suggestions. My feeds have been in need of cleanup for a while; a couple "circles of the wise" and some new blood would probably do them very well.

Obviously you can tell the audience in mind here is one that hasn't yet adopted RSS in any way, so I was trying to stay at once basic and specific (a tough line to walk). But I liked your remark, Beth, that it's so much more efficient that e-mail seems like a drag.

I meant to also link Alexandra Samuel's article, "How RSS can help you track twice as much news in half the time," which nicely captures the ROI for initial adoption even though a 4x efficiency gain is probably lowballing it.