Now I Can Come To You
Do you find that you are forgetting to visit my site to see if I have anything new? Now you can use a little program called an aggregator to get the latest from me. Just go out and download a news aggregator that supports RSS 2.0 and subscribe to my feed. Right now I am using JetBrains Omega Reader 1.0.4, which is currently being offered for free. It requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1, as do most of the aggregators that I have seen. I am sure that there are plenty of other quality news aggregators out there, including the one built into Mozilla Thunderbird and a few plugins for Mozilla Firefox, so don’t feel obligated to use the one that I am using.
What is RSS, you ask? Basically, it is a way that a web site can publish headlines or other content in a standardized format. You can then use a news aggregator to subscribe to one of these feeds. Whenever a new item is available, it show up on your aggregator the next time the aggregator synchronizes. By doing this, you do not have to go and visit each individual site to manually check for updates.
To subscribe to my feed, click on the icon that is in your browser’s address bar (in Firefox or IE7) and tell it to subscribe to the feed. If you are using IE6, you can right click the "Hungry? Feed on RSS" and click on Copy Link Location, then paste the address into your feed reader.