RSS Feeds

About Feeds :||: My Feeds

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About RSS Feeds

I do my best to incorporate RSS feeds into every site I create, thus making it easy for those who care to keep track of the content. They're incredibly useful, and make keeping track of news and websites much more rapid than navigating to your bookmarks every day. For those who don't know, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are simple documents that contain blurbs about content updates for websites as they happen. They became popular in news first, allowing people to keep track of the news as it was posted without having to check the site all the time. They also make it easier: you click on the title, read the blurb, and delete it if you're not interested, or follow the link to the site if you want to read the rest of the story. Some blogs post entire entries to their feeds, thus alleviating you of the need to even navigate to the blog - while keeping their numbers up, as each scan by the feed aggregator counts as a hit.

Using RSS feeds is easy, often simpler than one might think, and after using them for less than a week, most people are hooked. Most browsers integrate RSS now, but I prefer a separate aggregator. Many sites advertise their feeds in the address bar. To subscribe to a feed, your browser will often automatically subscribe you if you click on the feed subscription button. To the left, you'll see an example of an RSS subscription link that will appear within the content of a web page. You can drag the link into your aggregator, copy the link and paste it into the aggregator, and on and on.

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My Feeds

 Subscribe to the feed for this site.

 Subscribe to the feed for Conjecture, my personal blog

 Subscribe to the feed for In Progress, my academic blog.

 Subscribe to the site feed for Culture-Cast.org.

 Subscribe to the enhanced podcast for Culture-Cast.org via iTunes.

 Subscribe to the mp3 podcast for Culture-Cast.org.