What the heck is RSS?

September 2, 2008 in design with 15 Comments

The best and most efficient way to stay up to date with blogs and news sites is RSS. What the heck is RSS? It stands for Really Simple Syndication.

Basically, rather than visiting websites waiting for them to be updated, you subscribe to them and let them come to you! See below for more details.

Check out this video explaining how to use Google Reader:

(h/t theResurgence – here’s another more detailed video)

Abraham Piper has 22 good reasons to subscribe to his blog. After you’ve subscribed to his blog, come back and subscribe to mine!

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15 Responses to “What the heck is RSS?”

  1. VK September 3, 2008 at 11:22 pm #

    hmm seems this advert of yours bumped you up another 10 subscribers. I’m working on catching up, just you wait :P

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  2. davemiers September 3, 2008 at 11:27 pm #

    this advert of mine went online 10 minutes ago… i’m pretty certain that it didn’t go up in that time!

    posts on michael guglielmucci and mark driscoll and linkage from http://www.theresurgence.com are probably more decisive factors…

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  3. Luke C September 4, 2008 at 11:17 pm #

    FeedDemon is better than Google Reader imho.
    http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/FeedDemon/Default.aspx

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  4. davemiers September 4, 2008 at 11:40 pm #

    is that an offline one?

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  5. VK September 5, 2008 at 12:10 am #

    naaaa. i recon the best is the one built into flock. and yes you can view it offline im pretty sure. see my flock post on my blog…

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  6. Luke C September 8, 2008 at 12:02 am #

    Yeah, FeedDemon has an offline program that syncs up to a web based feed you can also view.

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