Today is RSS Awareness Day
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Stay up-to-date with your favourite websites by subscribing to them
Back in March I wrote a post on how to add your Flickr photos to your blog feed. During April, I participated in the April Challenge - Entropy at photochallenge.org. The challenge was to take a photo a day for the entire month of April and upload each one to Flickr. I don’t write daily posts here at Lilahpops but for that month my blog feed had new content every single day.
The addition of my Flickr photos has become incredibly useful in providing fresh content more frequently to my RSS subscribers.
But you don’t have a blog?
So, you don’t have your own blog but you read tons of blogs and news sites and other stuff, right? Do you bookmark each site and visit them individually? There’s an easier, faster way and it’s called RSS!
RSS allows you to keep track of your favourite websites at once. You don’t need to visit each site for the latest news, the updates come to you.
How you can subscribe
Check out the video below and see how you can simplify and optimise your web surfing time. And if you are interested in learning about photography make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed.
The video suggests three places where you can subscribe to your faves:
I actually use iGoogle. I love it. Read below (after the video) to see how I use RSS.
How I subscribe to my faves
If you have an Google account and haven’t yet tried it you’ll see the iGoogle option next to your login name. I have six tabs arranged by subject. This is the break down:
- one for various news websites I read (local and international)
- one for web design/development
- one for photography
- one for my Gmail and Google calender
- one for blog writing tips; and
- one for miscellaneous sites I visit.
The benefit is that if you see a headline that catches your eye you can read it right then and there or visit the site for more. If you have regular websites that you visit this is a simple, smart way to surf the web.
For more information about RSS check out:
