Friday, January 21, 2011

RSS: Subscribing to a Blog

RSS allows you to bring in content from sites around the web to one place, as soon as it's available. For example, you could RSS the posts in this blog and keep up with its content without any work on your part!
Here's an excellent video explaining the basics of RSS or subscribing to web content.



This post explaining more about RSS is an older web page, but the information is still very helpful and easy to understand.

You can subscribe to RSS feeds in your web browser, or you can use a news aggregator. Here are links to a few "readers" that can aggregate your different RSS feeds. Once you start subscribing to blogs, you'll quickly find it addicting!

Bloglines
Google Reader
NewsGator 
NetVibes 

And here's a great post about ways to make the most of RSS.

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