Explaining RSS the Oprah way.
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under Uncategorized
I’ve posted about using RSS feeds before and hopefully you’re using them, but if you want to get family and friends on board here’s a great breakdown of using RSS feeds that everyone can understand.
So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”. It is a way online for you to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs all in one place. How cool is that?
Suppose you have 50 sites and blogs that you like to visit regularly. Going to visit each website and blog everyday could take you hours. With RSS, you can “subscribe” to a website or blog, and get “fed” all the new headlines from all of these 50 sites and blogs in one list, and see what’s going on in minutes instead of hours. What a time saver!
For my documentary photography class everyone is required to blog. Going to our class website and checking each site is a tedious process. Not to mention you might run down the list of links to only find that one classmate has updated their blog. One quick glance at my my feed list for the class and I can tell who updated their blog without having to waste 20 minutes clicking every link to find that no one updated their site.
I prefer using Google Reader myself. It’s web based so no matter what computer I may be getting on the web from I’ll have access to my account and it works on my Blackberry so I can read my feeds on my phone. And I mean it’s a Google product. Can you really go wrong? If you have a gmail account you already have a Reader account so there’s no reason not to start using it.
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