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Today is RSS Awareness Day

By crooky | May 1, 2008

I’ve had a couple of my regular readers ask me in the past few months how they can subscribe to my blog. I invariably tell them “just subscribe to my RSS feed”. This is usually met with some confusion. I’ve been using RSS feeds since Firefox came along but I hadn’t realized that less than 6% of Internet users use RSS feeds to track their favourite news sites and blogs.

RSS Awareness Day

In honour of RSS Awareness Day, I’ve added a big, bold RSS link to the sidebar of my blog. If you click on that, it will get you started on tracking my blog via RSS. If you’ve never seen how an RSS feed works, click on the RSS Awareness Day banner above. They’ve got some great tips and the following video:

Good advice, annoying voice. In a nutshell, RSS at its most simple level lets you add a menu button to your web browser for my blog and when you click on it, it pulls down the last 10 or so titles of blog postings that I’ve written. Click on one of those titles and you’re at the story. It really saves time and keeps you abreast of everything that’s going on.

If you follow dozens or hundreds of blogs (like that editor from Slashdot at Penny Arcade Expo last year), an RSS Reader might be your answer. I use Google Reader but there are others out there.

If you’re not already subscribed to Digg’s daily news feed, I highly recommend it. That’s how I found out that today is RSS Awareness Day!

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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.

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