Thing 8 RSS Feeds

It wasn't hard to set up the Bloglines account and I understand what RSS feeds are but I'm still kind of confused about how it works in practice. Do they get deleted after you mark them read? I guess I'll figure it out after using it a while. I feel like I'm spending way too much time on this week's activities and am feeling kind of bleary-eyed from staring at the computer for so long. Give me a cup of tea and the newspaper and I'm good. Or, I can always ask my mother-in-law what's happening--she seems to watch a lot of CNN and is always quizzing my husband and I about the latest headlines! I can see how the feeds might be useful on the job, though.