May 1st is the Real Labor Day, but also
Now it is also RSS awareness day. Later today I will contribute a short history of May Day but right here is all about RSS. I included a short video called RSS in Plain English a few days back. It covered everything but just to reiterate. Lets say you like to read the news from 3-4 sources online, read 2-3 blogs, and check the weather, etc. You can imagine the time it takes to go to each site manually and do those things. RSS “aggregates” all that content and sends it to your feed reader, feed readers are free services you sign up for. Then you go to the feed reader site like Bloglines, Google Reader, Feedburner, etc and log into your account. All the content from your favorite sites is pulled into your account. You can read it all from that one spot. Pretty simple, infact, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. All you have to do is tell the feed reader site the URL of the sites you’d like it to get content from. That is it. What are you waiting for, subscribe to France tales today. You can also click on the RSS feed symbol on this site to subscribe, but you must set up your feed service first.
Owen, this was really good. Thank you for sharing. A techno-dolt like me can use all the help she can get.
If you don’t already subscribe to a feed reader I highly recommend it. If you go to other blogs like I do and make comments in hopes of having them comment back on your blog, a reader makes it easy to do this. You can add 50 blogs if you’d like. Then from the same window you can read, it’s like a more interactive set of bookmarks.