RSS Readers
Many of my friends are new to the blogging scene, and therefore I’ve decided I should post a little information to help them delve deeper into the internet world. Today we’ll talk about streamlining your blog reading process.
Survey: 11% of blog readers use RSS, 66% of people don’t know what RSS is.
Rather than bore you with a technical discussion of RSS and Atom Feeds you can use one of the best internet resources, the Wikipedia! Here is the RSS entry.
Suffice it to say that RSS feeds allow you to direct content from several sources into one easy to read location. Using an RSS feed reader you can download the feeds from all of your favorite blogs or websites right to your desktop. This eliminates the need to surf to each individual blog or website to check and see if they are updated. Open up your reader and poof all of the blogs with new posts appear instantaneously(or a little slower if you’re cursed with dial-up).
Personally I use Omea Reader, a wonderful (and FREE!) news aggregator. You can find an extensive list of readers here.
As a bonus for Firefox users, after installing Omea Reader,you can download an extension that lets you subscribe to the rss feed without entering them into Omea. (Although I can’t for the life of me find the link too it… anyone know of it?) I heart internet technology!
