Fun Friday! Yay!
Ready for a little more about blogging? This post is intended to help save you time. If you read my post on August 28th and have been blogging a little yourself, you have likely noticed that finding other blogs of interest to you may consume more time than you like. No surprise, since there are now more than 200 million blogs out there. The reason? You’re looking for them. The solution? Let them find you!
How? Well that is the the purpose of RSS. What is RSS? According to Wikipedia, it means “Really Simple Syndication” and its icon looks like this: 
Once you find an author who publishes their work online, often via their blog, you can subsribe to their posts via a “reader”, which is a service that scans the web constantly and automatically downloads new posts from your favorite authors to your reader file. These downloads are called “feeds”. Publishers benefit because RSS lets them syndicate their work automatically. Readers benefit because RSS automatically feeds them timely updates from all their favored publishers and posts them in one place for the reader. Viola! You…the reader…simply check your reader file whenever convenient. All that time you spent looking around the web? Saved! Here’s a link to Wikipedia about RSS for you to check out yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
Here’s a short video from the folks at CommonCraft that explains all this very well:
Note: this video was published in April, 2007, and states that there were then some 50 million blogs in use. Today, there are over 200 million! And it’s been growing at something like 80% per year! It’s happening! It’s the future! Does it include you?
So does this help? Tell me!
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I’m glad you did a post about this, leveraging RSS is a HUGE timesaver…
Thanks. So how do I or we your followers get feeds vs. having you push them to us?
September 13, 2009
You’re endorsement matters, Dustin. Thanks for saying so.
September 13, 2009
Hey, Mike, simply click on the RSS icon at the upper right-hand side of my blog page (where it says “click here to subsribe”) and follow instructions. You’ll need to subsribe to a “Reader”. I use Google Reader. Once that is done, your Google Reader page will appear, and you will be shown a “subsribe” button. Click on it, and you’re done.
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