Saturday, April 01, 2006
Computing Tips: Using Bloglines, Or, Keeping up With Blogs You Love to Read Everyday
Do you go from blog to blog of looking for someone who's posted something new? Try looking into RSS. Note: WINDOWS XP does not come with an RSS reader built in for us to follow "subscriptions" to blogs or updates to favorite news services, though Internet Explorer 7.0 is working on one for it's new release soon to come out. In the meantime, the most popular RSS add-on standalone reader is Bloglines.
Also, you can convert your own Blogger entries to be RSS compatible using Feedburner. In this way, those who want to subscribe can read your blog by subscription.
Mine new XML page from feedburner looks like this: (I'll insert pic later..I'm using "Blog This!" at the moment...doesn't allow pics to be added.)
I've found a good review and description of BlogLines. Read more at:
Also, you can convert your own Blogger entries to be RSS compatible using Feedburner. In this way, those who want to subscribe can read your blog by subscription.
Mine new XML page from feedburner looks like this: (I'll insert pic later..I'm using "Blog This!" at the moment...doesn't allow pics to be added.)
I've found a good review and description of BlogLines. Read more at: