Comments on: RSS Test http://bluealpha.com/archives/2005/04/11/rss-test/ Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:26:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justin http://bluealpha.com/archives/2005/04/11/rss-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1546 Justin Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:10:26 +0000 http://bluealpha.com/archives/2005/04/11/rss-test/#comment-1546 Special software can read RSS feeds and allow you to read the content of a website very easily. I use the email program <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/" rel="nofollow">Thunderbird</a>, which is capable of reading RSS feeds; everytime I check my email, it tells me if my favourite sites have been updated. Each website gets its own folder, and new content appears just like emails do. I can read what I want and ignore the rest. If I were to check each site manually, it would take me hours, but the software makes it so simple for me to keep up with many sites. I stick to only 20+ sites, but I know people who follow over a hundred! While I'm in China, I will probably use an online service for getting my RSS feeds. <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/" rel="nofollow">Bloglines</a> is one that I've heard of and I know Yahoo! offers a feed-reading feature that one can add to their <em><a href="http://my.yahoo.com" rel="nofollow">MyYahoo</a></em> page. When I first read about RSS, I thought it sounded like a techie fad and I didn't really care. After a while, I <em>reluctantly</em> decided I ought to at least try it out. I was shocked that after two days I could see it was a technology that saved me huge amounts of time. So my warning is that if you try it, you may not want to be without again. Special software can read RSS feeds and allow you to read the content of a website very easily. I use the email program Thunderbird, which is capable of reading RSS feeds; everytime I check my email, it tells me if my favourite sites have been updated. Each website gets its own folder, and new content appears just like emails do. I can read what I want and ignore the rest. If I were to check each site manually, it would take me hours, but the software makes it so simple for me to keep up with many sites. I stick to only 20+ sites, but I know people who follow over a hundred!

While I’m in China, I will probably use an online service for getting my RSS feeds. Bloglines is one that I’ve heard of and I know Yahoo! offers a feed-reading feature that one can add to their MyYahoo page.

When I first read about RSS, I thought it sounded like a techie fad and I didn’t really care. After a while, I reluctantly decided I ought to at least try it out. I was shocked that after two days I could see it was a technology that saved me huge amounts of time. So my warning is that if you try it, you may not want to be without again.

]]> By: michelle http://bluealpha.com/archives/2005/04/11/rss-test/comment-page-1/#comment-1545 michelle Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:34:37 +0000 http://bluealpha.com/archives/2005/04/11/rss-test/#comment-1545 hey justin, just checked out your site. b/c i can. muah ha ha. wondering what r.s.s. is. l8r...;) hey justin,
just checked out your site. b/c i can. muah ha ha.
wondering what r.s.s. is.
l8r…;)

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