What the hell is RSS?
This is a post long time coming. What is RSS? I know the explanation that I would give won't do it justice so I will just direct you here, XML.com What is RSS. I will give you few minutes to read up on what a wonderful thing this is...
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Ok now that you are back and hopefully have a general understanding of RSS let me tell you why I think that this is one of the greatest things for any webmaster to use on their site. Easy distribution of content. It is as simple as that. RSS is the way that people will eventually start getting their online news, information, and whatever else. I use RSS to get all my info now, no more email newsletters, no more checking a site several times a day looking for updates. Basically if a site does not have an RSS feed, I will rarely go to it.
Chris Pirillo is a strong backer of RSS. I first learned about it through his Lockergnome site. Chris has even set up a channel for nothing but RSS. This is another good place to go to learn about the benefits of RSS.
Now you are probably wondering 'How do I get the feeds to my computer?' You need an RSS client. The one that I am using is Feedreader. It is free, open source and the new versions are always better then the previous. Here is a link to the download of the latest version as of this post. Now many might not want to download a new program and let it run in the background and check the feeds every hour or so. They might want to be able to check their feeds from any computer at anytime, well Yahoo has added an RSS Headline to the My Yahoo. It works very much the same way as a stand alone client but you can check the feeds from any computer with net access. Feedreader is for Windows only, and since I am not a Mac expert I am going to ask Tina, if she reads this, to post a comment about a good, free RSS reader for the Mac.
Now that you have a choose of ways to get the feeds to you how about a list of feeds that I use:
Extreme Alpha Geek
EAGPhotos
Politik7
Toothface
Tina's blog
Emotionaltoothpaste
Chris Pirillo
Leo Laporte
Fark.com
Fark.com comments
Wil Wheaton dot net
BoingBoing
This list could go on, but I will stop it there. Just copy the shortcut and paste it. Simple as that. As always if you run into any problems just let me know and I will help in any way I can.
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Ok now that you are back and hopefully have a general understanding of RSS let me tell you why I think that this is one of the greatest things for any webmaster to use on their site. Easy distribution of content. It is as simple as that. RSS is the way that people will eventually start getting their online news, information, and whatever else. I use RSS to get all my info now, no more email newsletters, no more checking a site several times a day looking for updates. Basically if a site does not have an RSS feed, I will rarely go to it.
Chris Pirillo is a strong backer of RSS. I first learned about it through his Lockergnome site. Chris has even set up a channel for nothing but RSS. This is another good place to go to learn about the benefits of RSS.
Now you are probably wondering 'How do I get the feeds to my computer?' You need an RSS client. The one that I am using is Feedreader. It is free, open source and the new versions are always better then the previous. Here is a link to the download of the latest version as of this post. Now many might not want to download a new program and let it run in the background and check the feeds every hour or so. They might want to be able to check their feeds from any computer at anytime, well Yahoo has added an RSS Headline to the My Yahoo. It works very much the same way as a stand alone client but you can check the feeds from any computer with net access. Feedreader is for Windows only, and since I am not a Mac expert I am going to ask Tina, if she reads this, to post a comment about a good, free RSS reader for the Mac.
Now that you have a choose of ways to get the feeds to you how about a list of feeds that I use:
Extreme Alpha Geek
EAGPhotos
Politik7
Toothface
Tina's blog
Emotionaltoothpaste
Chris Pirillo
Leo Laporte
Fark.com
Fark.com comments
Wil Wheaton dot net
BoingBoing
This list could go on, but I will stop it there. Just copy the shortcut and paste it. Simple as that. As always if you run into any problems just let me know and I will help in any way I can.
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