RSS feeds - how I might use them in education

There are some rough edges around my use of RSS Feeds. First, let me confess that I read the good library newsletter introduction to RSS that came out some months ago. I subscribed to a reader, set up some feeds, looked a couple of time, and rapidly moved onto to my next emergency deadline. That is to say, I dropped it.

I like the google reader better than what I remember about the previous reader. However, a lot of sites that I would like to subscribe to put me automatically into the Microsoft feed system on this computer. I would like to have it all through the google reader but have not yet figured out how to do this.

Possible educational uses of feeds and readers:

Could I look through feeds and forward them to residents on the rotation?
Of course I could use them to keep up with my own field. (Smile).
One of the journals I wanted said it had a ETOC but I could never get anything besides just a link to the editorial, not to the entire table of contents. Weird.

I find that the more I write, the less I sound like Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) pontificating on Sex and the City. That is a good thing.