Today, I’m going to explain how RSS can help you live your best life online.
We all have busy lives with very little time. Web surfing is fun but can take hours going to visit every single website and blog you enjoy. Wouldn’t it be fabulous if you could just get all the headlines of the most current stories from all your favorite websites and blogs in one place?
Well now you can, and it is called RSS feed.
. . .So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”. It is a way online for you to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs all in one place. How cool is that?
Back in skinny jeans explains RSS, which is a tool I consider critical to enjoying the web. Their Oprah explanation is three years old — and I know some of you don’t like RSS and some of you think Twitter is better — but for many of you it comes down to this: surfing or subscribing.
If you surf, you have to go to all your favorite websites (like NewMexiKen and Dinner without Crayons) and see what’s new.
If you subscribe, all (or nearly all) of your favorite websites will send what’s new to you (to your RSS reader).
It’s relatively simple and free, though some of the better RSS readers charge for the software. There’s even a free basic reader in your web browser.