Feeding Frenzy with RSS

Hang around conversation with me long enough and I will pop ‘RSS’ and ‘feeds’ into conversation quite a lot. I realise that most Feba staff don’t really understand what RSS is, and more to the point, what it can deliver. If you are want to find out more, try these links:  What is RSS?   Wikipedia

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Posted by Mark Posted in: Blog Design, New Media No Comments » June 2008

Recommended Reading

RSS can confuse and overwhelm until you figure out how to tame it and use it to help you rather than waste your time. That journey for me is about three years old already, and still I have lots to learn.

Having tried numerous RSS ‘feed readers’, I have decided to stay with the Google Reader, which has many useful abilities. One is that I can mark posts I read as ‘worth sharing’ and then actually share them in an RSS feed. In my RECOMMENDED READING page, I have used the INLINE RSS plugin for WordPress to display the latest 30 shared items.

Posted by Mark Posted in: Site Administration No Comments » June 2008