Down the Bog

Oct 3, 2007

Subscribe to an RSS Feed

Until recently I hadn’t really tinkered with RSS feeds. A lot of websites offer the facility to subscribe to an RSS feed so as to be kept informed on updated news articles or in the case of this site a new blog entry.

So over the weekend I downloaded a program called RSS Bandit, installed it and set it up to keep me updated on my favourite blogs and websites. Instead of surfing my favourite sites with my normal browser I just open RSS Bandit and it automatically checks for the latest news and blog entries. I’m then able to read all the latest news within the program. It’s a great way to keep updated.

So if you’re unsure how to but you want to keep up to date with this blog just right-click on the RSS feed button at the top or bottom of this page and in Internet Explorer you’ll get the option to subscribe to the blog with RSS Bandit (if it’s installed). If you’re using Mozilla then you’ll need to select “copy link location” and paste this as a new subscription into your RSS program. It will then keep you updated on anything new on the blog.

Honestly, this is such a handy tool and I’m really surprised at myself for missing out on the value of this until now.



2 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Sam Nova

    Other suggestions: BlogLines and Googles Reader (can easy be used from iGoogle).
    I never tried RSS Bandit so I will not compare, but I might check it out.
    The problems with such ‘tools’ is that you often end up subscribing to a LOT of blogs. Whenever I come to a blog that sounds interesting then the first thing I do is to search for RSS icon and subscribe.. Such as I did the other day with your blog. So now I’m at 140 blogs in my Bloglines, sure not all are updated daily but still a lot.

    Oct 3rd, 2007

  2. Stephen

    A good point. When I set up RSS Bandit I tried to be careful not to subscribe to too many feeds although yours is one of them. :)

    The list can grow of course but I’m going to try and limit it to the sites that I have a real interest in keeping an eye on. The sites that I just have a more casual eye on I’m not choosing to take feeds from.

    My wife uses Bloglines and the advantage there as you know is that it’s web based so she can acccess that on any computer.

    Oct 3rd, 2007

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