Tag Archives: RSS

Aggregator Heaven

Jan 20th, 2010

Aggregator Heaven

Alltop is also the best designed RSS aggregator. It has enough topics to be useful, not so many that you can’t find what you are looking for. The site “remembers” topics you recently visited, making it easy for you to return. Put your mouse over an article title on Alltop and you’ll see an instant preview.

Have your cookies and eat them

Sep 14th, 2009

Have your cookies and eat them

Fortunately, some clever web techies have lazy surfers like me sussed and have come up with an alternative to sites promising to keep my pulse on the buzz of what’s happening on the web, and then bombarding me with a constant stream of nothing even vaguely interesting. Like SwingVine.

Why your blog needs to be BURNED!

Nov 13th, 2008

Why your blog needs to be BURNED!

Most bloggers have a basic understanding of RSS and why it is essential for blogging, but a lot of people are unaware of the powerful aid called Feedburner. Your aim as a blogger should be to 1. write type entertaining articles or post interesting stuff on your blog and 2. to gain as many followers [...]

RSS not replacing email yet

Oct 28th, 2008

RSS not replacing email yet

This post is taken from the Campaign monitor blog and raises some good points about RSS vs e-mail as communication vehicles for the ‘real’ non-techy world. For web designers and developers, email can seem a dreadfully old fashioned way to spread information. I’ve spoken to plenty of people who tell me that RSS is going [...]

RSS in Plain English

Apr 23rd, 2008

RSS in Plain English

Most of the content in blogs and newsletters is distributed to readers using RSS (Real Simple Syndication.) This means that if you utilise an RSS reader, like Google Reader for example, the latest content is delivered to you as it happens.