RSS Readers
September 7th, 2007 by Ken Mankoff
Dear whoever is visiting this site,
I’m really glad you’re reading this, but it would be great if you did not come back (except to add comments). Why is that? Because there are better ways to read websites than visiting them. You should be using RSS. What is RSS? The following video should explain it.
I think email is a good analogy. You don’t contact me every day or week and say, “Hey Ken, do you have anything you want to tell me?”. I email it to your inbox if I want to say it. RSS makes websites behave similarly, and your RSS reader becomes an inbox for websites with new content.
Now that you know what RSS is, subscribe to this site, keep following along, and come back and comment sometime.
My tips for a happy RSS experience:
- Find a good RSS aggregrator (like Google Reader, or if you’re really geeky, rss2email)
- Any time you come across a site you like, subscribe
- If the site publishes more than 1 article a day, unsubscribe (RSS should make your life easier, not increase the information overload)
- If you use iGoogle then you can embed Google Reader in it
