<p>Bonni Stachowiak shares how to keep your Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) real simple with RSS on episode 614 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br /> <div id="" class="one-half first divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Quotes from the episode</h2> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-21108" src="https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE614-2-300x200.png" alt="It's pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they've subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity." width="553" height="369" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE614-2.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE614-2.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE614-2.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE614-2.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE614-2.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TIHE614-2.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px" /></p> <p>Rather than get that overwhelmed feeling of how hard it&#8217;s going to be to keep up, I don&#8217;t have to, and neither do you. Enter RSS, Real Simple Syndication.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p>It&#8217;s pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they&#8217;ve subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p>It&#8217;s amazing what happens when, before we start trying to lecture or share information,<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>we ask people to predict something. Even if they end up predicting incorrectly, there still is that connection where we&#8217;ve piqued their curiosity.<br /> -Bonni Stachowiak</p> <p></div><div id="" class="one-half divwrap clearfix" /></p> <h2>Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/2025/10/17/6b-aggregators-and-rss/">Why Isn’t RSS More Popular By Now, by Bonni Stachowiak</a></li> <li><a href="https://jarche.com/2023/08/real-simple-syndication/">Real Simple Syndication, by Harold Jarche</a></li> <li><a href="https://inoreader.com/">Inoreader</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/">Unread App</a></li> <li><a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2017/09/indispensable-tool/">The Indispensable Digital Research Tool I can Say, Without Lying, Saves Time, by Alan Levine (aka CogDog)</a></li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/0klgLsSxGsU?si=isy09tJLoE8Zw0zo">RSS in Plain English, by Common Craft</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.miniroll.app">MiniRoll</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@katie_linder">This Cozy Reading Life with Katie Linder</a></li> <li><a href="https://electronicbookreview.com/gatherings/the-transformers/">The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing</a></li> <li><a href="nasa.gov/rss/dyn/lg_image_of_the_day.rss">NASA Image of the Day</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/rss">McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency</a></li> <li><a href="https://polleverywhere.com/">Poll Everywhere</a></li> </ul> <p></div></p>