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Blogrovr.com

November 24th, 2007 at 9:39 pm » Comments (0)

Blogrovr  save you time. Just like a good dog RovR fetches posts from your favorite blogs about anything you’re browsing, and shows you summaries. You can open read posts without leaving the web page you were on. Blogrovr will also suggest popular items. You can download blogrovr directly if you are on the firefox browser. [...]



Podcast Sensation on RSS With The WordPress Wizard

September 15th, 2007 at 4:39 am » Comments (0)

I was thrilled to interview Cathy Perkins, The Word Press Wizard
on RSS “in’s” and “outs”(smile)
It was easy to understand and I can’t wait to interview her again. You wil be ready to put this insightful information to work after the first 10 mins!
She gives special kudos to Netvibes and Feedburner.
If you don’t have an ipod borrow [...]



What Is Rss Feed - You Tube

September 10th, 2007 at 2:46 am » Comments (0)

What Is Rss Feed - You Tube
This is really very good. I wish I had done it myself!
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Blog Basics: What is new2blog.com - blogging for beginners?

September 10th, 2007 at 2:25 am » Comments (0)

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly updated web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. It
’s the easiest way for users to get a the latest content from all their favorite websites and blogs all in one [...]



RSS-What’s That? Pt. 5 -How To Subscribe To That Exciting Feed

September 9th, 2007 at 3:40 am » Comments (0)

Now you may have chosen a newsreader but how do you subscribe to a feed? It will be done by:

A bookmarklet on your browser.(For example FireFox is a browser)
Subscription links directly on the page
Subscription buttons on the page
XML.Chicklets

XML CHICKLETS
Let us begin with that strange thing I said above called XML.Chicket. It actually looks like a [...]



RSS-What’s That? 4 Types of Newsreaders-Pt.4

September 8th, 2007 at 3:36 am » Comments (1)

Newsreaders are also called RSS aggregators, feed aggregators or RSS readers. 
There are four types of newsreaders.

Web Newsreaders

This type of newsreader requires no installation. It is really great for us boomers. Your subscriptions stay on the web and not your computer. You can access your feeds from any computer that has an internet connection. Most [...]



RSS-What’s That? Pt.3 Step By Step with BlogLine Feeder

September 7th, 2007 at 2:16 am » Comments (0)

You might find a visual look at some screen shots might help you see the process of an RSS FEED using Bloglines as an example.
If you follow me as I click on a new site by a friend of mine The Voice Queen, called SimplyVoiceonline.com.

If you notice in this case the RSS subscribe button [...]



RSS-What’s That? Pt.2-A FEED

September 7th, 2007 at 1:15 am » Comments (0)

I like the definition of a feed given by good old Wikipedia. It is as follows:
A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as [...]



RSS What’s That?-Part 1

September 6th, 2007 at 1:14 am » Comments (0)

Some asked me today about RSS feeds so I wanted to share the answer I came up with today.
RSS is an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. It represents all feed formats. Whats a feed? A feed is just a summary of blog entries (or posts) that are displayed [...]



Feedblitz is Boomer Friendly

August 29th, 2007 at 2:14 am » Comments (0)

We really like Feedblitz because it is great for folks who do not know how to submit their names to the RSS readers. With feedblitz all you have to do is key in your email in the little box on the site.
Once you put your email in you will get a message in your email [...]