My "favorites" list in Internet Explorer has over 1,000 websites. There are 20 top level categories. The "weblogs category, which is a top-level category, has approximately 100 weblogs, most of which change at least once a day (and most of which I visit at least twice a month). This is too much information. Things flow by, they get registered in fleeting glimpses, and then they're gone, leaving only a tiny subconscious wake to show they've ever been there.
And then along comes something like RSS. If you don't want to read that FAQ, here's the short version: RSS is like a card-catalog for the web. It's an XML feed that tells you a little about a web page, including when it last changed