Wednesday 27 May 2009

Really Simple Syndication




You know, I didn’t know if you knew, but my blog — like many sites — has an RSS feed as part of it.


Lord knows I’ve found this handy, for the sites I follow.


Basically, I can go to a site that’s displaying one of the pictured logos — usually shown in the URL bar, at the top of an open browser window, and indicating it’s got a feed — and press Shift (

), Option () and D, and whenever a site is updated, I get a potted summary of the post.


Now I know that’s not available to everybody.   But it seems that Internet Explorer 7* has recently been updated to include the same sort of feature.


And that there’s quite a few RSS reader programmes around, including a few for those of us on Linux.  Most of which are free.


And seemingly able to filter out unwanted spam!


Here’s hoping people would like to add me as a feed.


I’m running out of space of my mailing list …






* There’s probably a nasty comment about Microsoft catching up, there.   Especially after  I saw the Super Bar, and the idea of a virtual XP desktop in coverage of Windoze 7.  And OS X stopped doing that, in Tiger.   I’ve got a Mac, what can I tell you … ?

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