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20060707 Friday July 07, 2006

 RSS

Over the last couple of months, I've grown to love RSS.  (If you don't know what RSS is, read this page:  What is RSS?)

At first I was sceptical and didn't see the advantage of adding one more thing (my news reader) to  check on a regular basis.  I preferred subscribing to newsletters via email and getting the content that way.

A few months ago, when I started my browser I had several pages load automatically because they had content that changed frequently and I wanted to visit them every day.  Every one of them had an RSS feed for the content that was changing.  I now have my  home page set to my Newsgator page where I've collected more than 30 different feeds.  Fortunately, most of these don't add content every day.

Now, when I look at a web page and think, "I would like to monitor this site" chances are real good that they have an RSS feed.  If they don't, I get frustrated and chances are very good that I won't be monitoring that site for changes.

Some of the advantages to subscribing to RSS feeds are:
  • I can check them when I want
  • They don't clutter up my email box
  • I am able to keep up to date on a lot of different topics very easily
All I have to do to see if a site has an RSS feed is look in the Location bar of my Firefox window for the little orange icon. If I see that, then I can go to my reader and add that site's feed.  If you aren't using Firefox, look for a link that says "RSS", "XML" or "Atom".

If you aren't using RSS to keep up with what's going on in your field, you're not keeping up.



Posted by jdorner ( Nov 19 2008, 10:42:58 AM EST / Jul 07 2006, 04:59:49 PM EDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
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Don't know how I survived before completely switching over to syndication as my window to the world. Someone asked me last week how I find things on the Internet. I answered, "I don't. It finds me." Between my newsreader and del.icio.us my Web habits have completely changed in the last year.

Only 30 feeds? I'm at over a 1000. Might be time to prune. :)

Posted by Kevin on July 08, 2006 at 06:45 AM EDT #

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