RSS is an acronym for Real Simple Syndications – It can be used to follow your favorite sites. Once you follow a site, only new articles are pushed to you. And, once you read them, they are marked as read so you don’t re-see the same articles over and over. You also have more control…
Source: Bookfeed.io – An RSS Feed with New Releases from Your Favorite Authors No, RSS isn’t dead, and there are tools that take advantage of the availability of RSS feeds. Bookfeed.io is one of those. Grab a list of your favorite authors and Bookfeed.io will create an RSS feed to announce new books by those…
I have included a module on RSS to allow my students to create their own research teams on topics of interest. Because I’m old, I still have my students set up Feedly accounts and plug in the RSS feeds of their classmates and hopefully add other blogs to their feeds as well. And like blogging, I…
Find a website’s RSS feed easily with the blog-feed-finder WordPress widget. Source: GitHub – oeru/blog-feed-finder: A WordPress widget that helps a user enter a valid URL for their personal blog feed. Via: http://cogdogblog.com/2018/06/better-magic-box/ I may have mentioned RSS at one time or another. It’s the glue that is still around, and used by a majority…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]LTHOUGH Feedly is a good web service to use, the limitations of the free plan of 100 feeds could be a problem if you want to follow more, such as when you have several classes blogging. Firefox,Chrome, and Safari support add-ons that let you follow RSS feeds right in the browser while Internet Explorer supports…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]HILE using an RSS reader is a pretty easy process, setting it up isn’t. There are a couple of hoops to jump through, but once you set it up you can read your RSS feeds like a boss. For an introduction into why you would want to us RSS, check out my article from last…
THE MODERN WEB contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often…
Social media privacy getting you down? Would you like to be notified automatically when your favorite websites are updated? RSS is the tool for you! What is RSS? Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is a method for website sites to publish updates. An RSS reader can subscribe to RSS feeds, giving the user a list of…
I sometimes tell people that when technology evangelists espouse that their tool saves you time, that it’s a red flag warning / code talk for “I am lying”. But here, I share my one, career tested exception; it’s old technology that many people have abandoned. I will wade carefully through the acronym jargon, but it’s using…
Feedly is my first recommendation for people that want to use RSS to manage their news resources. I’m an ardent user of RSS and I still don’t understand why Google cancelled Google Reader. For the free level of Feedly you can now only subscribe to a max of 100 feeds (or sites). This is probably…