If you read or write a blog, you should read this!
If you read any number of blogs you’ve no doubt heard the terminology ‘RSS’. Today I will both explain RSS and recommend a very simple RSS viewer which you should use.. Do read on.
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired and even personal weblogs like this one. Ultimately just about any web content can be broken down into discrete items which can be syndicated via RSS. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
As with most tech acronyms, they usually mean something very straightforward. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them automatically.
This relieves your burden of stress in checking each website with the fear of forgetting or not having the time to review them all. And who likes to put the work into browsing to a blog only to find that no one has updated it?There are various forms and versions of RSS, but I want to explain how it can help make your life easier and how you can practice better time management by using an RSS viewer. If you are new to RSS, and even if you are not, I will recommend that you download a user friendly, appropriately named, and completely free RSS viewer: FeedReader. I have used FeedReader for several months now to keep up on the blogs of 87 unique individuals, and have had no real complaints. There are hundreds of RSS viewers to choose from each ranging in complexity and features. But if you wish to have an easy to operate, lightweight and still powerful RSS viewer to save you all that work and trouble, I will hands down recommend FeedReader to you. If you are a reader of more than five blogs, go download it now and try it out. If you have any questions, I’ll answer them!FeedReader even offers you some popular RSS feeds of varying interest, you can choose to include them if you wish as a part of your install. Regardless, it will take you a short amount of work to insert all the blogs you wish to view, and then you are all set. Open FeedReader each day and it will have all your new material sitting there, marked as unread, waiting and begging for you to read!
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