I absolutely love RSS and new readers. I’ve been online long enough to remember when the only way to make any coherent sense out of USENET was to use a news reader. Now it has come full circle again with RSS feeds. RSS feeds allow people to get the information they want from websites without having to travel to the various websites on a regular basis. It is a huge timesaver in my opinion.
I use Feed Deamon which is a pretty basic reader, but it handles every part of managing feeds that I need. It even has a built in web browser that will open up the feeds website if I want more information. It interacts with News Gator so that no matter where I open up a Feed Deamon client, it has all my information and feeds handy just by logging in.
Overall, RSS feeds are a fantastic way to communicate site updates to subscribers in a quick, easy format. I saves clogging up your email with useless spam by reducing the amount of times you have to give our your email address. To me this is fantastic.
15 years ago
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as crazy as it sounds, i've never used any RSS feeds. I know what they are, I just havent really bothered with them. I dont use bookmarks either, I just remember the websites i like to visit.
ReplyDeleteI tried the google reader, but wasnt too impressed. i'll try the Feed Deamon, see if i like that one better.