Dec 26

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Tag: — Bush Mackel @ 9:38 pm

If you’re just looking to grab this site’s feed, here you go : http://feeds.feedburner.com/BushMackel.

Or if you’d rather subscribe via e-mail, Subscribe to Bush Mackel by Email.

If on the other hand, if you’re not sure how you’d subscribe or why you’d WANT to subscribe…

What is a Feed?
When people refer to a site’s feed, they’re usually referring to a special file that basically serves as a site’s newspaper of sorts. For sites that are updated often like a blog or a news site, the feed keeps your finger on the pulse of the site by displaying titles and content of the latest posts or articles.

Why You Want to Subscribe to Feeds
Remembering and bookmarking all of your favorite sites’ URLs is great and all, but if you’re dealing with more than two blogs, this exercise of memory can get old fast. Instead of bookmarking or trying to remember a site’s address, it makes more sense to just “grab” the site’s feed because then it’s easily organized within your favorite feed reader and will immediately display the most up to date content for that site.

For instance, say that you love to read 10 blogs. Everytime you want want to see what’s new with those blogs, you could take say 10 minutes to go and visit all of this blogs and maybe find that half of them have been updated, OR you could subscribe to them in a feed reader of some sort and within 10 seconds see WHICH ones of them are updated, WHICH ones of them are not, AND see the newest content and headlines!

“So How Then Do I Subscribe Mr. Bush?”
Most browsers allow you to do so pretty easily. Just check for the little RSS icon somewhere in the browser window. In Firefox, it’ll usually appear to the right of the URL in the address bar. In IE, it’s usually somewhere on a toolbar. But regardless of where you find it, once you have the feed, you can view it using any popular feed reader including the following:

And if you want a little bit more information about popular feed readers check out my post, Reading RSS Feeds – Reader vs Omea vs Thunderbird