Okay folks. I’m pretty new to this stuff too, so for beginners here’s what RSS is about:<\/p>\n
Essentially it is a system of keeping track of information from sites that you like. You get a small summary scrolling along the bottom of the page telling you what the new stuff is on the site. In other words, it’s quite handy. <\/p>\n
I keep mine scrolling on The Register, which is a great site for slightly techie news and usually fairly liberal ideas. It’s a bit UK-centric, but picks up on stories from all over the world. One that’s caught my eye today is this Dino missing link<\/a> about a link in the evolutionary chain being filled. Ya boo sucks to evolutionists, or whatever it is the Americans say… My point is that I probably wouldn’t have visited the site and found a story that I’m actually very interested in, and that’s the point of RSS.<\/p>\n So, I know you’re begging to know, how do I get RSS working?<\/p>\n Well, I use Firefox to browse the web (more on that in a future post I’m sure) so I use this extension:<\/p>\n InfoRSS<\/a><\/p>\n They even provide it at a nice https domain too. Aren’t they good? It runs along the bottom of your browser window. Here’s one for your weird Internet Explorer people:<\/p>\n RSSreader<\/a><\/p>\n I have no idea if that’s any good because, like I say, I use Firefox so don’t need it.<\/p>\n Anyway, while looking at my blog, click whatever you need to to add RSS feeds and they should automatically pick up the options on my page. With the Firefox extension that I linked to, the way to do this is click the little orange square with white swooshes at the bottom of your screen near the RSS feed. You’ll get a few options; I suggest using the RSS 2.0, which is the feed of posts I make, but there’s one on there for comments too, and another one using Atom, which I have no idea about but it came with the software so I’ll leave it on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n So, that’s RSS. Isn’t it nice?<\/p>\n Three posts in one day. This blogging thing could be addictive.<\/p>\n [additional note: while writing this I have drunk a very tasty bottle of ale, and only now noticed that it was 6.4% alcohol, so now my fingers have gone slightly tingly]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay folks. I’m pretty new to this stuff too, so for beginners here’s what RSS is about: Essentially it is a system of keeping track of information from sites that you like. You get a small summary scrolling along the bottom of the page telling you what the new stuff is on the site. In … Continue reading RSS feed now available!<\/span>