Playing with RSS
I’ve been reading some Blogs lately and a lot of them have links to subscribe to them. I use Maxthon as my default Browser which has a built in RSS Reader. I can subscribe to any RSS Feed with it and read them right there too, which is easy. I also found out about Bloglines and I subscribed to a few Blogs. I like not having to go to my favorite Blogs I visited and go one by one looking to see if they have new posts. Now, my curiosity is, how do they set that up so that anyone visiting their site can subscribe and get new post updates? Hum?
Well, my dad used to tell me "Don't tell me you don't know how to do something or that it’s too hard if you have never tried doing it." I guess, if I want to learn about this and how it works, I’m just going to have to just go ahead and dive into it.
So, I'm trying to learn a little bit about Feeds, how they work and how to set them up. I played a little with the settings on the template to this blog and got the feed to work. I also tried a suggestion from the Blogger’s Help page to try FeedBurner. It’s not to hard to set it up. Although I have to learn my way around all the different new features it has before I feel somewhat comfortable with it. I don't have to be an expert at it, right? I only need to get it up and running. I’m happy the subscriptions links for Atom and RSS Feeds are working, but know I have to work on how they look and feel a little. Please excuse me and the often changes or redundancy as I learn how to do this. Hopefully, I learn enough to be able to help setup a Feed for the library's new blog or if a library patrons ask me how or to set up theirs I’ll know where to point them to. For now I'll keep diving into all this Web 2.0 stuff and see how we can use it here at the library.
Wish me luck!
Frankie
Well, my dad used to tell me "Don't tell me you don't know how to do something or that it’s too hard if you have never tried doing it." I guess, if I want to learn about this and how it works, I’m just going to have to just go ahead and dive into it.
So, I'm trying to learn a little bit about Feeds, how they work and how to set them up. I played a little with the settings on the template to this blog and got the feed to work. I also tried a suggestion from the Blogger’s Help page to try FeedBurner. It’s not to hard to set it up. Although I have to learn my way around all the different new features it has before I feel somewhat comfortable with it. I don't have to be an expert at it, right? I only need to get it up and running. I’m happy the subscriptions links for Atom and RSS Feeds are working, but know I have to work on how they look and feel a little. Please excuse me and the often changes or redundancy as I learn how to do this. Hopefully, I learn enough to be able to help setup a Feed for the library's new blog or if a library patrons ask me how or to set up theirs I’ll know where to point them to. For now I'll keep diving into all this Web 2.0 stuff and see how we can use it here at the library.
Wish me luck!
Frankie
posted by Display Name @ 6:29 PM
2 Comments:
At 4:27 AM,
Martin Belam said…
Good luck with finding your way around feeds. I t is really good to see libraries and people from libraries engaging with these kind of tools, as your information organising skills are sorely needed on the web
At 11:11 PM,
Display Name said…
Thank you! Right now we are also working on a Blog for the Reference Department where we could use to post any reference questions or notes of importance for all the Ref Staff. We all got goofy schedules so it should work pretty good as long as we all cooperate on it.
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