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What’s that button that I see everywhere? Well, it allows you to get updates to a site as they are made. It’s based on a technology called RSS.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s an easy way for you to get the stories that you want from the sites you like delivered to you as they become available. For example, if you visit 50 blogs everyday to get spiritual insights and personal development tidbits, you can have the headlines delivered to your RSS reader, rather than going to each site individually.
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What’s an RSS Reader?
An RSS reader is standalone software or a site that collects feeds, reads the code that they are written in (XML), and displays the feeds for that you sign up for. Some of the more popular readers are listed below:
- MyYahoo
- MyMSN
- MyAOL
- MyGoogle
- Bloglines
- NewsGator
- NetVibes
- PageFlakes
- Shrook (For Mac users. Free trial and then there’s a cost.)
- Lektora
- Attensa (more for enterprise, and there’s a cost)
How do I subscribe?
Whenever you see the orange button, you can right-click on it to get the URL of the feed. Copy and paste that URL into your favorite reader and you’re set. BTW, the URL for Balanced Life Center is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BalancedLifeCenter.
For more information on RSS and subscribing to feeds, read RSS the Oprah Way.