Introduction To RSS Feed Readers And Aggregators

May 28th, 2008 by admin

There are dozens of pieces of free RSS reader software available but I personally like Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader/) so in this article we’re going to have a look at how to use it.

Once you’ve signed for for a free account we can start to add RSS feeds to our feed reader account.

Many websites these days will either feature as RSS link or an orange RSS button like this one:

Clcik the link or button and you will either be taken straight to an RSS feed, or just as likely you will be taken to a page where you are provided with the RSS feed.

The feed address will look similar to a standard website address.

As an example, our RSS feed here at Tame Your Technology can be found at: http://www.tameyourtechnology.com/feed/

Once you have copied and pasted this address, you simply select the “Add Subscription” link in Google Feed Reader, enter in the feed address and click “Add”.

You will see the articles in the feed filling up the main window and you’ll see the feed name showing on the left hand side of the page.

Any site with some content you haven’t read will show in bold. Anything in normal text is stuff you’ve read. Every time you log into your Google Reader account it will check all the feeds to see what is new, and you can read it all there at that one central location without having to go and visit each site inidividually.

Simple!

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