I have been called a techno-junkie, yes and I guess it’s true. So let me educate on a new feature of this site. It’s RSS. Now, until a few weeks ago I didn’t know what RSS was either and I didn’t really care. Then I thought I’d find out a little more.
RSS stands for “Real Simple Syndication”. It is basically a small piece of text which carries news. It lets you know when a page has been updated without needing to visit that page. It is becoming more and more popular and now the main blogging sites offer RSS feeds of the latest posts. Not liking to be behind, I decided that my site needed this feature too.
Still confused? I don’t blame you.
Normally, if you like a site, you might save it as a bookmark in your Favorites menu. But then, if you want to check out all the sites you like, you click on them all and review them. Pah! Too slow. If you just had a little piece of text like the date it was updated and the latest headline, you could check everything with a glance. That is RSS. It’s like Google News, where many sources come together and give you the headline.
The new Internet Explorer will have an option for subscribing to these feeds, just like Firefox which has offered RSS for a long time. Also, if you have Google Desktop with the sidebar, you can subscribe using the Web Clips section. Have a look at today’s photo to see a screenshot of this wonderful wonderful feature. If you want to try it out, copy the following into your RSS reader or into the Google Webclips options section:
http://www.davidadaire.com/feed/
Oh don’t I sound like the world’s biggest nerd? Ok I’ll cut it out now. Next blog will be about something cool, I promise.
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