Only 1/4 of my lovely and intelligent readers are subscribed to the feed of this site. That’s good, but we can do better.
For those who don’t know, feeds are the best way to keep up on your favorite blogs. Using a feed reader will show you the posts you haven’t read all in one place. I read about 100 blogs a day, and I can do it in 30 minutes because I use a feed reader. Without one, well, the only thing I’d be doing would be reading blogs.
It’s really simple:
- Get a free feed reader. You can use a web-based one like Google Reader, or a desktop application like NetNewsWire (Mac) or FeedDemon (Windows). If you use iGoogle, you can add a feed right to your homepage.
- Subscribe to your favorite blogs. Feeds are often located on the right side with a bright orange icon. Copy the url (also called “location”) of the feed (here’s mine) and subscribe to it in your feed reader.
Then you’re all set. Every time you open your feed reader, it will grab the latest posts from your favorite blogs.
Isn’t technology wonderful?
I’m one of your subscriptors!
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But noncommentor;)
Added to my Firefox 3 RSS reader!
You are feeding my NewsFire for a while now… What did you think huh? :P
In the web-based reader category, I prefer http://www.bloglines.com over Google’s reader. Bloglines has nice keyboard shortcuts: s for next subscription, j for next article, o to open article on the site. Google’s reader doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut, that I know of, to go to the next subscription.
You’re in my iGoogle page, and I catch you every update.
Keep up the good work!
I’ve made a short screencast on how I use RSS. You can link to it directly if you like. I’m using wordpress too, so just click my name!
HI there! I’m a subscriber to your feed and i have a way to those who want to read your posts everywhere without opening especial programs or use web-based readers like “Google Reader”, with this you will be able to read the feed from your email.
If you don’t have a gmail account or similar already create one, go to: http://www.sendmerss.com/ copy this blog feed url to the first field, and input your email in the following two, you will receive a message for confirmation, do it , and then create a new label on your gmail account, name it “Unreasonable Faith” or whatever you like, then all you have to do is create a filter and make it label all emails coming from the sendmerss server as the new created label and skip the inbox, there you have it, now whenever you want to see if there are new posts in you favorite blog just go to your gmail account and check if the label has a bold upon it :D
That’s how i do it, hope i gave a good tip to someone :)
@Anon: That’s a good tip, but an even easier way to subscribe via email is to do it through a service I have already setup:
Subscribe via email
@Daniel Florien: Yap you’re right that’s easier, good iniciative there’s a lot of people that like to read their news as they read their mail :)
You’re in my Bloglines now! Glad you enjoyed the Rapture comment.
Hey Chris, actually Google Reader has several similar keyboard shortcuts. You can use ‘J’ to go to the next article, space bar takes you to the next blog or bottom of current post, ‘E’ emails the post to a friend, ‘M’ will mark a post as unread, and there are more. . . .