What Everyone Ought To Know About RSS Feed


Big orange feed icon

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    RSS Feed? What’s that!? Subscribe? Why?

    RSS? (Real Simple Syndication)…Like That Means Anything To Me!?

  • What Is It? Why Should I Care? Who Cares?
  • A Feed? Feedreader? The Big Orange Button?
  • I’m a Computer-Dummy, and I could care less!
  • But, WAIT! Don’t You want to Stay Posted? Keep Updated? Stay “In The Know”!?

My Goal Today Is:

  • To help make your life easier!
  • To help save you time!
  • To reduce your computer-screen tunnel-vision, headaches, and possible carpel tunnel ;-)
  • To keep you in touch with all your favorite websites and blogs (like this one) by placing all your subscriptions into one little-handy RSS feedreader (a term, you will soon understand)!

Cheers and enjoy the flick :-D

At any time, if you still have questions or troubles, feel free to contact me.


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There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.

 

 

So, Where Do I Get a Free RSS Reader?

  • My Yahoo RSS Reader (I use this one). Very easy. Usually the first choice when I click on anyone’s Orange Button…nice layout, and because I love to comment and join the discussion I’m glad it brings me right to the blogpost for all the juicy details.
  • Google Reader I have this too. But, rarely use it…its very slow to load, even the scrolling of posts is slow. Also, I have to have another window opened which just frustrates me. Yet, I just saw that Leigh points out a Firefox extension for Gmail accounts that puts the RSS reader alongside. This would help greatly…I’ll give it a whirl.
  • Bloglines Many, many people use this one. Honestly, most of my subscribers have this one…and, I’m happy to say, they convert from feedreaders to blog-readers very nicely too. Meaning, Bloglines subscribers actually read my feed AND come on the blog to read more, and stay awhile to talk, visit, click-around and learn. Love ya’guys and gals…so if you have something good to say about your reader (and this site ;-) ) please comment below.

What Next?

As usual, please share this post or comment below. Especially, if there was anything I missed in teaching all you need to know about RSS Feeds!

Many thanks:

  • CommonCraft for this nifty 3.5 minute all-you-need-to-know RSS (Real Simple Syndication) video. What it is? How it works? How can you subscribe? All in Plain English, made especially for us proud non-techie Computer Dummies in the world!
  • Dawud Miracle of HealthyDesigns for introducing this video clip to me.
  • Blip for making it ultra-simple (again for the non-tech-dork that I am) to “share” and simply copy and paste html code, so you can actually watch this super-cool video!
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    Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Ponn Sabra
    Filed under: Blogging

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