The Power of Knowledge - General Knowledge

General Knowledge is one of the many forms of our human intelligence.

General knowledge is a very good indicator of mental skills acquired through education and experience. People with a good knowledge base exhibit greater retention of facts and figures and are regarded more intelligent. They are more conscious of the connectivity between different information which they learn and this helps them retrieve information stored in their long term memory more easily.

This is the Power of General Knowledge.

There are many ways to to unleash this power within us. One of the easiest way, as mentioned above, is to widen our knowledge base, through reading. And there is a tool to even facilitate this.

Many websites support RSS Feeds now. And there are also many free feeds readers available on the web. These readers search the websites, with web addresses pre-entered into the reader, for latest updates such as news. The reader is also very easy to install onto our computer.

One such reader which i am currently using is the free FeedReader, available for download from www.feedreader.com.

Below are a few of the feeds that i am currently reading everyday. You may want to use the following links to test out your feeds reader after it is installed. The links should lead you to more feeds on the various news websites.

ABCNews International
http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/world_rss20.xml

AP Top Business News At 6 a.m.
http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/BUSINESSHEADS-rss_2.0.xml?SITE=SCFLO&SECTION=HOME

BBC News News Front Page UK Edition
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml

Business Times Online - Companies News
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/mnt/xml/companies.xml

BusinessWeek Online -- Investing
http://www.businessweek.com/rss/investor.rss

Channel NewsAsia Singapore Business News
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/rss/latest_cna_sgbiz_rss.xml

CNNMoney.com Recently Published/Updated
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_latest.rss

Economist.com Global Agenda
http://www.pheedo.com/f/economistcomglobalagenda

Forbes.com Business News
http://www.forbes.com/business/index.xml

Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/rssfeed/0,,1,00.xml

HDB Press Releases
http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10296p.nsf/RSS/RSSPressRelease

Investment Ideas - Larry MacDonald's blog about investing and markets
http://blogs.canadianbusiness.com/advansis/publish/ENG1rss.xml

Investopedia.com Headlines
http://feeds.investopedia.com/stockinvesting

ListedCompany.com News
http://www.listedcompany.com/syndicate/rss.cgi

NYT > Home Page
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/userland/HomePage.xml

Reuters: Investing
http://mobile.reuters.com/reuters/rss/INV.xml

SGX-MAS Research Incentive Scheme
http://research.sgx.com/reports/rss_rpt_list.pl

The Economist
http://www.economist.com/media/rss/economist.xml

TheStreet.com
http://www.thestreet.com/feeds/rss/index.xml

WallStreetWindow
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Wallstreetwindow-all

Yahoo! Finance: Why the Rich Get Richer by Robert Kiyosaki
http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/columnist/richricher

Yahoo! News: Business
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/business

Even this blog of mine supports RSS feeds. :-O

Unleash the power within you NOW!


Life is Great! Live Hard! Read Even Harder!

Leroy Ang
"When I Stop Learning, I Stop Living"