Traveling amongst your favorite sites and blogs can take quite a bit of time each day.  Thankfully, modern browsers have RSS subscription capabilities built right in.  If you're using Microsoft Office 2007, it's easy to subscribe to your favorite corporate blogs.  Utilizing Google's Blogsearch, you can even subscribe to your keywords or key phrases in searches of blogs on the Internet.

If you're using Outlook 2007, the first step is to set the default program options in IE7 or Firefox to open RSS feeds with Outlook rather than the browser or other program.  Open Tools > Options and select the Applications tab.  Scroll to Web Feed and select other for the program and navigate to Outlook.exe (Usually C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12Outlook.exe)

Firefox RSS to Outlook
Now you can easily subscribe to RSS simply by clicking the orange RSS button viewable in the Address Bar:


You'll then be presented with a subscription option in Outlook:
RSS Feed to Outlook 2007

Now, when those sites publish their content, I am instantly updated within Outlook and need not navigate back to the website.  One downer with Outlook, though, is that it won't play audio nor video in an RSS feed like Google Reader does.  I hope Microsoft expands the flexibility of Outlook in the future to support those features.