RSS and You

[macdobhran]

After a recent conversation with TheWife, I decided that my first post (well, technically my second post) should be about RSS. I admit, I was a little intimidated by the whole concept at first but once I read up on it a little I started to realize just how cool RSS could be.

From Wikipedia:  RSS (most commonly expanded as “Really Simple Syndication”) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

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Comments

[bittibuddha.livejournal.com]

hey thanks Gar! thats very helpful. I never really understood what RSS's were.

[macdobhran.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. RSS really isn't as complicated as most explanations make it sound. I really love my Firefox RSS ticker. I have it set to only show when the websites I follow have been updated. The posts just dance across the top of my browser until I'm ready to read them.

Unrelated, when I went back and read this post with fresh eyes this morning I was shocked at how poor my writing skills have become. I'm using different tenses and jumping around all over the place. *sigh* Well, this is one of the reasons I want to write more, I guess.