Looking around this site, you’ll probably notice various links inviting you to ’subscribe to RSS feed’ and ‘check our gig list from your homepage’. RSS is still a relatively new technology, and it’s been suggested that maybe only 1% of blog readers - aside from those who read a lot of technology-themed blogs - know what it is, how to use it and how incredibly useful it is. So, for those who are in that other 99%, I thought I’d post a bit of info about RSS in general, and also about the different RSS feeds you can get from the Pillowfish website.
How I use RSS
Most mornings, I sit in front of my computer, eating a bowl of muesli and checking a series of websites - news, people’s blogs, a web comic, the status of the Second Life grid, a site with a collection of overheard remarks, etc. etc.. This has been my routine for many years, but until recently I had to click on a bookmark to each individual site, and see if there was anything new to see when I got there. Sometimes there was. Sometimes there wasn’t.
These days, I only visit the websites that I know have new content on them. Rather than having recently improved my telepathy skills, I have started using RSS feeds on my iGoogle homepage, and this means that I can see a brief preview of the content - text, links and images - of loads of different sites, all on one page. It’s like having my own customised set of news headlines.
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