The Information Age has brought us way more information than we can handle. We might have two, ten or twenty web sites to keep up with, but it’s not efficient to visit them one-by-one, the old-fashioned way.

The good news is that a bunch of smart people out there have developed a way for us to breeze through our favorite websites to find the relevant, insightful information that we truly seek out in the wilderness of the Internet (without getting bogged down with all the junk out there). This new technology goes by many names — RSS, Atom, syndication, feeds, Live Bookmarks — but in short, it creates a way to gather anything you are interested in into one place.

Here’s a quick start to using an aggregator, a piece of software that will pull different feeds into one aggregate location. Use these buttons to keep updated on the latest InsideWork articles:

• If you use Yahoo! Mail:
• For those using Gmail:
• If you are using another aggregator, it will ask you for a feed location or URL. Use this: http://www.insidework.net/web/front_page.xml

More often than not, new technologies fill up and clutter our lives, leaving us in worse condition than ever before. But once in a while, something like this comes along that helps us cut through the junk.

For more details, see the page about our RSS feed.