RSS Feeds... Why not?

In the beginning there was the Internet.  And upon the Internet there was chaos, and all manner of information was transmitted in all sorts of ways, and it was complicated.

And then the Blog was created, and we looked upon it and said it was good.  And now there is only to visit as many sites daily which blogs we wish to follow, in the hopes that information was added.  And this was complicated.

And then the RSS Feed was created, and we looked upon it and it was good.  

With RSS feeds we no longer have to go out to our favourite writers’ sites... when articles are published to their blog we can have that article delivered to our Inbox without the fuss.  It truly is the easiest way to keep up with... whatever it is we wish to keep up with!

So why is it, I ask, that when I watch the statistics on my own blog that I get several hundred hits every day, and all of my articles are read by masses, do so few people subscribe?  Is it that people do not understand how easy RSS feeds are? 

For those of you still in the dark RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication.  It is an easy way for you to receive blogs delivered right to you, rather than you having to visit my site daily.

There are plenty of RSS readers available.  My personal favourite is to let Windows Vista handle my feeds, so that all of the feeds I subscribe to are delivered to my Outlook Inbox.  If you feel that a different program is more apt I would love to hear about it, but I would like to know why you do or do not use RSS?

Please add your comments below... I look forward to reading each one!

Published Sunday, August 05, 2007 1:03 AM by Mitch

Comments

# re: RSS Feeds... Why not?

Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:55 PM by Jess

I use Google reader to read my stuff that's not on Livejournal.  I like it, then again I haven't really tried any other ones.  I finally added your site when I went on a rampage of adding sites.

Your RSS feed is sneaky, it makes me visit your page to be able to read the whole article...  Makes me think you be a slave to your counter :P  

# re: RSS Feeds... Why not?

Monday, August 06, 2007 9:48 AM by rclaus

I concur with Jess and his comments about your teaser RSS feed only showing excerpts of your articles. Knowing you - it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to communicate in 150 words or less, so I always have to click a link. :)

RSS reader - I was using the built in capabilities of IE7 and OL2007, but I craved better interaction and control of the feeds. I went back to my personal standby and favorite for OFFLINE reading which is FeedDemon and Newsgator.  It's a must for me, since I have about 4 or 5 different machines that I can possibly read from. with FeedDemon software on each and a single online subscription to NewsGator - I get all of the readers in sync, effortlessly.   Newsgator also has a very web 2.0'ish web reader for when I am not at one of my 5 machines. Well worth the $30 for serious RSS junkies.

Rick

# re: RSS Feeds... Why not?

Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:27 AM by brat in mtl (u know who i am)

Thank you Honey finally for the explanation on RSS feeds. Mitch would know that I am CLUELESS about I.T. That was the best rundown I have gotten.

Now that I am well equipped, I will go off to the nearest MAC world I can find, find out what is the best compatible feeder I can use. Hehe, a virus just entered microsoft world! Teehee.

It is okay folks I respect your spot. Mitch knows we can all get along together, like in the ads.

Mitch, to you much love again!

Frenchfry

Why can't we be friends, why can't we be friends.......

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