Were you able to successfully set up your RSS feed? If not, where did you run into problems? If you were successful, does this make information-gathering more convenient for you?
I managed to set up a RRS feed it wasn't hard to do. It seemed to sign me up for more that i wanted so I had to edit them and remove the ones I was not interested in. I am not sure that I will use this very often but time will tell. The information I got was definately at my fingertips, I didn't have to go seaching it was all right there so maybe I will start to use this.

Well Google definitely has a lot to offer. Google earth can not be downloaded on a staff computer so was not able to do this at work, however have looked at it before and it was wonderful to see places I grew up in.
I went into labs and tried Aardvark... the first question I asked was too short ???!!! I then asked the question "why do questions have to be a certain length?" It liked that question but to get an answer I would have to join Aardvark. Yet another way for your information to be in a computer, will not recomend this.
Google script converter is good (in labs).

For you, is Facebook useful or a time-waster?

Facebook is a total time waster.

How easy or difficult was it to find articles that needed editing? Were the errors you found factual or grammar / spelling?

I didn't find errors in the subjects that I chose. I did go into the edit function however and played in the "sandbox". I feel confident in my abilities to edit any text in wikipedia that I come across that is wrong.