Solution: Keep reading......
RSS feeds have been around for a while but have failed to ignite in popularity among the majority of casual Web users.
The simple fact is that RSS Feeds are incredibly useful but they suffer from a terrible image problem which is that many people don't know how to use them.
In essence, RSS feeds act in a very similar way to email. With email you have a Mail application (Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo) and that application alerts you whenever you have new email in your inbox. You then simply open and read all your new email at your leisure.
RSS follows a very similar concept but instead of new email, you're receiving new content alerts from your favorite Web sites. This is incredibly useful because it means you can quickly and easily stay abreast of new content on all your favorite sites without actually having to visit those sites to find the new stuff.
Not surprisingly, RSS works very well for sites that update their content frequently - i.e. news sites.
RSS is one of those concepts that can be difficult to grasp at first, but eventually the "A-ha" moment strikes and you'll wonder how you ever lived without them.
Check out the video above for a full walk-throuh.
2 comments:
Yes...I am one of those girls that experienced an aha moment with RSS feeds and can not live without them now! :) Love your blog...I'm a new subscriber :)
Hey girlrobot, thanks for stopping by. I think RSS feeds really get back to the core of what the Web is about - which is essentially to find and consume content as quickly and easily as possible. With that being said I must go and add your blog's RSS feed to my Flock subscriptions!
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