The feed

I've been seeing a lot of websites that collect links to blogs, and I've been working with RSS feeds for LIS 2600, and it's been causing some thoughts. (That's a good thing, right?) A portion of web 2.0 seems to be devoted to bringing content to us rather than our needing to go to the content.
It reminds me a bit of the young adult book Feed by M. T. Anderson. (Which was incredible - I listened to the audiobook, and it was so well done!) In the society Anderson depicts, babies have the feed (next-generation television and internet) implanted in their brains, and very few people grow up without it. Content comes right to your brain - the latest styles, fashions, fads, the ability to chat with your friends, and any information you need. It was an intense book, and a bit scary how close to reality it skirted as a dystopia. I highly recommend it.
Commercials for books aside (well, I've worked in a library for 11 years now...), I appreciate the convenience of being able to have content come to me rather than always remembering to visit websites regularly. I do find there are sites I still just remember to visit once a week or so - that way if I have a busy day at work, I'm not wading through tons of info that I can't mentally process right then. Pluses and minuses, I guess.