RSS in Plain English

Myrna has problems. Technorati says there is ever 15 million blogs and you can see its going up. This is overwhelming, today show is about new and efficient way to keep up with all this cool stuffs its happening on the internet. So, I am going to talk about two ways that you can keep up of what is happening on the web. There is the Old and Slow Way, boo!. Then, there is a new fast way, yeah!. Here is the difference between the new and the old way. This is you and here are your favorite websites. You log on your computer and you are looking for something new so, you go out to your favorite blogs. Is there anything new there? No? You go out to your favorite sites, if there is anything new? No. Every time you look for something new and it is not there you have waste the value of our time. This is the old way. Now, let us consider the new and fast way which is simply taken this arrows and turning them to other way. Which means that the new things from blogs and new thing from your new sites comes to you and stay. It is like Netflix, compared to the video store. So, what we are talking about is using a single website that becomes your home for reading all the new stuffs that is coming from your favorite websites. There are two steps for getting started. The first step is you need a home for reading a new posts. This is the website called the reader. They are free and all you need is an account. I use a site called Google reader and it is look like this. My favorite sites turn into the left and on the right I can threw through all the new posts from my favorite sites in a single place. So, to complete step one, you need to go sign up for a reader a Google reader, bloglines, newskater , my Yahoo are good places to start. Step number two, is to set up a connection between your reader and your favorite websites. Setting piece connections is called subscribing and it is really important. Nearly every blog in new sites offers the ability for you need to subscribe so that updates from this sites show up here in your reader. To set up these subscriptions, you just need to look funny little icons. This is the standard one using the standard arch color, you may also see this. This are the icons say, Hey look subscribe to me, I can save you time. Once you find one of this buttons on your favorite’s site, click on it and the page will open itself and give you everything you need for subscribing. After you click that button, one of two types of pages are let you to appear. This is one that provide one click access to subscribing on your usually. The other page you like to see, look likes this with code on it. If you see this page, copy the URL out of the page, go to your reader and look for link that says, add subscription or add feed and click on that and paste the link into your reader. So, once you add this subscriptions and the connections is there new post will start arriving in your reader and you will see like this is the new faster way to read the web, it is addicted so be careful. So, a quick recap, there are two things you need to do. Number one is go sign up for reader. Number two, is to go to your favorite websites, click on the icon and subscribe. I Lee LeFever and this Ben RSS in Plain English on The Commoncraft Show.