What’s with all this “RSS” and “FEEDS” Mumbo Jumbo in the Subscribe Box (to your right)?
A part of my job is to educate the student population (or anybody else who is reading) about various technologies that I have come to learn, but by no means have become an expert (not yet, at least).
Now, the subscription to my site isn’t really a traditional subscription per se, it’s basically a way to receive my daily content from the site directly to your mailbox or via your feed aggregator.
What in the hell is a feed aggregator?
…news aggregator is a type of software that retrieves syndicated Web content that is supplied in the form of a web feed (RSS, Atom and other XML formats), and that are published by weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites. (source: wikipedia)
Basically, a feed aggregator is a tool that scoops up my content written in a “Really Simple Syndication” (RSS) format and sends it directly to your computer! (simple, eh?).
What’s RSS?
RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news websites, weblogs and podcasting. The abbreviation is variously used to refer to the following standards:
Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Web feeds provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other metadata. RSS in particular, delivers this information as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, web feeds allow a website’s frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.(source: wikipedia)
So, you can either sign up by entering your email address in the email field and have the feeds sent directly to your inbox, or you can do it the best way by signing up for my direct feeds by clicking “Jump on our RSS Feed” button. In the latter case, you’ll need to get yourself a feed reader (aggregator) before you sign up…If you have a Yahoo account, then the feeds will go directly to your “My Yahoo” pages on the bottom.
OR, you may wish to use other services such as: odeo.com, News Gator Online, Google, Web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, e-mail programs like Microsoft Outlook, and other applications, including Apple’s iTunes, which serves as a podcast aggregator.
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