I just added a new page, up at the top, called “subscribe”.
I know a lot of people, even some very tech-savvy people, are still baffled by RSS and feeds and aggregators and all of that. I stumbled across an easy to understand explanation of RSS feeds and how they work at this blog, so I thought I’d create a permanent page here to let people know about the different easy ways that they can choose to read my entries here via RSS.
Did you know that over 60% of current MissMalaprop.com subscribers read entries here in one of three ways? The top 3 ways you guys prefer to read my feed are….
FeedBurner Email Subscriptions
For those of you reading this via some sort of reader, like the ones listed above, it looks like you’ve got things covered! I hope this helps at least someone who was stumped about what in the heck RSS is and how something that sounds so complicated (it isn’t, really!) could possibly make your life easier (it can, I promise!).
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Just want to thank you for the links in this post. They are things I’ve been wondering about for some time now.
Best Wishes.
No problem! I’m glad they could help someone out. I know the whole thing can be confusing, even to people who otherwise know their way pretty well around computers.
Despite being pretty geeky and net-savvy, it actually took me a stupidly long time to ‘get’ RSS and how to use it! I would certainly have valued some no-nonsense explanations! But finally I just gave it a go and now it’s a major part of my online life.
My suggestion to people has been to ‘just try it’ and it will suddenly make complete sense and you’ll never look back. My other suggestion is to get a browser like Firefox (or use the latest Safari if you’re a Mac user) so you can read feeds right in your browser.
I adore feeds! I think that without them I never would be able to keep up with blog postings. I don’t use any of those sites, but I use the program Feedreader. I love it!