RSS
News Feeds
are
rapidly becoming the way to publish news and information in a timely and convenient
fashion, without "pushing" email and cluttering one's mailbox. By
subscribing to a news feed, one can stay in touch with what's new without
having to go to a website and examine the content looking for changes. The
owner of the website publishes a news feed presenting new items of interest
that one can read at one's leisure. WIthout using email. One subscribes without
your email address being sent to anyone. And it's easy ... that's why
it's called Really Simply
Syndication.
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What's
the best way to learn about postings on a feed? ...
PINGS!
Register for
Ping email to be automatically notified when items are posted on an Enfeedia-hosted
feed. You can easily do so in about one minute. Just click the "Set Up
Pings" or Ping icon
wherever you see it. Enfeedia will verify your email address, that's all there
is to it. No need to open an account.
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How
Do You Subscribe to RSS News Feeds?
By
using a "news reader"—sometimes called
a "news aggregator"—and it's quite easy. One of the easiest
to use is the news reader of Google. With a Google account,
you can easily add the news feed to your personalized Google page. (There
are other "news readers" available; See Other RSS News
Readers below.)
Here's
how you do that:
(1)
Click the
icon associated with any item in the feed to which you wish to
subscribe. You will then be presented the complete feed along with subscription
buttons along the top of the page.
(2)
Click on the
subscription button to add the feed to your Google page.
Follow the instructions provided to you by Google for adding the feed to your custom page.
Other
RSS News Readers
There
are also many news readers available online and that you can download for
free. To subscribe to a news feed using one of those news readers, you will
need to provide the address for the news feed. The easy way to get an address
for a feed is to click the
or
button associated with the feed and copy it from your browser address bar.
Then paste it in as directed by the news reader you've chosen.
Browsers
with Built-In RSS News Readers
Most modern browsers
have a built-in news reader. All you need to do
to view the feed is click the
or
button and your feed-capable browser will display it for you. You can bookmark
the feed, just as you do for a webpage, and whenever you return to the feed,
the most current items in the feed will be presented. Check your browser
to see how to get indications of new items being posted on a feed since
the last time you viewed the feed.
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