RSS and stuff

The three ways to add an RSS feed (I believe this to be the different ways to subscribe to a network) 1. copy and paste the sites address (example:  http://isaacwillaholiver.blogspot.com/ ) into you GoogleReader where it says add an subscription. 2. Where you type in addresses for web sites there is an icon you can press to subscribe to it, depending what internet your using the icon will be different, mine looks like the picture at the top of the page, the blue button beside the star . 3. On the site your looking at they should have a noticeable Subscribe button somewhere.

I wouldn't consider a RSS reader to be better/worse then going to sites individually. It all depends the individuals preference. RSS allows you to get the latest news from multiple sites you've subscribed to all in one location, which in result is a much faster process then having to go to each site.
An RSS reader would be very useful if your interested in the local or global news and read about it regularly. You could have multiple news companies all in one location and save a lot of time by just going to one site to figure out what ever is new in the news. For myself however this is not a very useful technology. If im on the computer im either doing school work, socializing , music, or teaching myself about something. I attempted using Google Reader for different sites that i download music off of, but i found that opening multiple tabs instead was much faster and more efficient way for what i do.
Why GoogleReader or another web based aggregator would be better then a desktop software: ITS FREE, and you can access your information from any computer with internet, where as a desktop software would be just on your computer