It appears, searching through the blog, that I haven't talked about Howard Rheingold's new set of video presentations yet. Fortunately, he's only on to his second one so far, so it's easy to catch up. I've linked to the wiki page for him, so I'll just say he's been writing about the culture of work and leisure related to computers since the age of the PC began.
This edition of his vlog is titled "Introduction to RSS" and it is a fairly clear and useful description of why RSS might be useful. There are other good explanations out there however, particularly the video from Common Craft, but the first 3 minutes or so of Rheingold's musings form a very tight description of the concept of "knowledge work" and point to why it is difficult to manage in an industrial fashion. It's not explicitly about that, but in describing how he works, Rheingold points up what it means to be in one of the modern occupations which is all about the processing of diverse sets of information. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in what some parts of the "knowledge economy" look like.
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