Boo Feedburner for making me do their work for them.
Yay me again!
B.
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You rock :o) Thank you for sorting that one out :o)
Sorry but was is a feed?
Dyslexia rules K.O.
I obviously meant to say – What is a feed?
Hi Harry.
‘Feed’ is shorthand for ‘RSS Feed’ and without getting too technical…
Smart websites are capable of telling people when something has been changed or something new has been added, no matter where in the information hierarchy those changed/edits have been made.
Stupid websites don’t tell anyone when anything has been changed, it’s up to you and me to hunt through the entire structure of them to see what might have been edited, updated or added and that’s a pretty time consuming occupation. Unfortunately all of the riding clubs I’m a member of (who change their content very frequently to update on forthcoming events/competitions etc) fall in to the stupd website category. Sigh.
Anyway…
The clever websites generate RSS feeds which communicate outwards exactly what data has been added no matter where in the information structure that change has been made.
People can ‘subscribe’ (no fee involved) to any amount of RSS feeds with an RSS reader. Bloglines and Google Reader are probably the two forerunners. You have a Google mail account so it would be a matter of just a few clicks for you to set up a Google Reader account.
RSS readers just aggregate all of ones RSS feeds in one place. My Bloglines account tells me when one of the blogs I read has changed as well as when feeds from BBC News and a bunch of international news organisations have been updated.
You rock :o) Thank you for sorting that one out :o)
Sorry but was is a feed?
Dyslexia rules K.O.
I obviously meant to say – What is a feed?
Hi Harry.
‘Feed’ is shorthand for ‘RSS Feed’ and without getting too technical…
Smart websites are capable of telling people when something has been changed or something new has been added, no matter where in the information hierarchy those changed/edits have been made.
Stupid websites don’t tell anyone when anything has been changed, it’s up to you and me to hunt through the entire structure of them to see what might have been edited, updated or added and that’s a pretty time consuming occupation. Unfortunately all of the riding clubs I’m a member of (who change their content very frequently to update on forthcoming events/competitions etc) fall in to the stupd website category. Sigh.
Anyway…
The clever websites generate RSS feeds which communicate outwards exactly what data has been added no matter where in the information structure that change has been made.
People can ‘subscribe’ (no fee involved) to any amount of RSS feeds with an RSS reader. Bloglines and Google Reader are probably the two forerunners. You have a Google mail account so it would be a matter of just a few clicks for you to set up a Google Reader account.
RSS readers just aggregate all of ones RSS feeds in one place. My Bloglines account tells me when one of the blogs I read has changed as well as when feeds from BBC News and a bunch of international news organisations have been updated.
I don’t need to visit the websites, I can just read the changes in my feed reader. This blog has a feed for content at https://brennigjones.com/blog/?feed=rss2 and another feed for comments at https://brennigjones.com/blog/?feed=comments-rss2
I think that’s about it, in a nutshell.