Subscribing to a Feed
27/07/06 21:10
There are three ways to read this
blog:
1. You can point your browser to http://www.thejpblog.com and read it like an ordinary web site.
2. You can subscribe to an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed, which will aggregate your blogs and enable you to choose the article you want to see.
3. You can have the post sent to you by email.
Presumably, you are using method #1 already.
Method 2: Aggregators
Method 2 requires an RSS "aggregator", a program in which you paste a special URL (web address) to subscribe to a "feed." The aggregator downloads all the new posts and lists then in a table by title. Clicking on a title allows you to read the entire post or a summary of the post in a separate window.
If you are interested in method 2, you can search Google for "RSS reader [Macintosh or Windows or Linux]" without the quotes and you will find plenty of readers, both commercial and free.
If you are a Macintosh user, try Vienna, an open-source free reader or NewsFire, reputed to be top-of-the-line for $19.95.
Windows users can try Newscrawler, which is shareware, or FeedReader, which is free.
Safari for the Macintosh has a feed reader built in. Presumably, the new Internet Explorer will come with such a feature.
If you are a Linux user, you probably know all this already, so there are no recommendations.
Follow the instruction for your RSS reader. When it asks for the feed address, right click on this link, copy the link, and paste it into the reader.
There are also web-based readers, but a web-based reader defeats one of the major purposes of having a feed, which is to read posts offline.
Method 3: Email
Thanks to FeedBlitz, you can now enter your email address into the field below and FeedBlitz will regularly check the RSS feed and email any new posts to you. We do not give your email address to anyone. Period. FeedBlitz makes the same promise.
1. You can point your browser to http://www.thejpblog.com and read it like an ordinary web site.
2. You can subscribe to an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed, which will aggregate your blogs and enable you to choose the article you want to see.
3. You can have the post sent to you by email.
Presumably, you are using method #1 already.
Method 2: Aggregators
Method 2 requires an RSS "aggregator", a program in which you paste a special URL (web address) to subscribe to a "feed." The aggregator downloads all the new posts and lists then in a table by title. Clicking on a title allows you to read the entire post or a summary of the post in a separate window.
If you are interested in method 2, you can search Google for "RSS reader [Macintosh or Windows or Linux]" without the quotes and you will find plenty of readers, both commercial and free.
If you are a Macintosh user, try Vienna, an open-source free reader or NewsFire, reputed to be top-of-the-line for $19.95.
Windows users can try Newscrawler, which is shareware, or FeedReader, which is free.
Safari for the Macintosh has a feed reader built in. Presumably, the new Internet Explorer will come with such a feature.
If you are a Linux user, you probably know all this already, so there are no recommendations.
Follow the instruction for your RSS reader. When it asks for the feed address, right click on this link, copy the link, and paste it into the reader.
There are also web-based readers, but a web-based reader defeats one of the major purposes of having a feed, which is to read posts offline.
Method 3: Email
Thanks to FeedBlitz, you can now enter your email address into the field below and FeedBlitz will regularly check the RSS feed and email any new posts to you. We do not give your email address to anyone. Period. FeedBlitz makes the same promise.