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July 13th, 2007

re-bookmark my RSS feed, please

Hey all you RSS reader folks! I’ve finally signed up & am posting links in Ma.gnolia (similar to del.icio.us, but better ;) AND have set up my RSS feed through Feedburner which means - for all you non-tech-savvy peeps - that if you re-bookmark my RSS feed you’ll get to see them all in the same place! Not to mention I have the ability to also post photos from flickr just by adding a tag to my flickr photos, therefore there may be some flickr photos only posted in the feed & not on my blog. capiche!?

So, please, take a minute to edit your bookmark to the new & improved feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/willotoons

Don’t know what the heck RSS is? Well, the easiest way I can explain it is that it’s a way to bookmark a site, and have your browser - or RSS/news reader - let you know when that site has been updated! Often that’s why they call it a subscription, because with every new issue (aka post or update) you get it delivered right to your door (aka browser or newsreader).

I use Safari, which makes it really easy, but Firefox makes it really easy as well…and if you’re using Internet Explorer on a PC you should install & use Firefox anyway! Ooh, actually come to think of it, PC people can even install Safari now - huzzah!

Here’s some screenshots of how I have it set up:

RSS in bookmarks bar
see pulldowns & those little squares in the bookmarks bar?
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RSS example 2
blogs I have bookmarked their RSS feeds

RSS screenshot 3
with one click I can view all of my latest comments at once

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Also, as you may have noticed, I added links to the footer of every feed item & post. Easy ways for you to email the post, subscribe to my feed, stumble it, digg it, add to facebook, ma.gnolia & del.icio.us and more. Let me know if you love this, hate this or think I’m missing a site that you regularly post to.

Hopefully this helped some of you who have no idea what RSS is… and thanks again for reading & re-bookmarking my RSS feed!

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Willo O'Brien published this at 3:33 pm in: Uncategorized ::

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2 Responses to “re-bookmark my RSS feed, please”

  1. ted says:

    Hey how’d you do that with the links in the footer?! I need those, too!

  2. ted says:

    Oh, and I tried using the instructions on FeedBurner and the links did not appear.

    I like that you have a bookmark for your comments…very smart, I will have to look into doing that as well!

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