How
To Set Up Your Own News and Information Feeds
SIgn Up For RSS Now
As a quick overview, RSS
feeds are a spam-free, quick and efficient way to
read news and weblogs. To get the most out of
newsfeeds, you need a powerful aggregator, though,
that lets you organize, search, categorize and use
news items just like emails. Think of it as streams
of news, articles, or favorite sites covering a
specific subject in business, sports or whatever
you prefer. You are in essence building your
own newspaper where you pick the subjects and articles in areas you care
about.
Aggregators fall into
basically three categories:
- Client side
aggregators - that's readers like you
- Web based
aggregators - a website dedicated at providing you
access to the feeds you define
- Internet browsers
that have RSS that have native RSS features
already installed
The first question is
which is the better or best. Since there are
three categories, each offers a variety of benefits.
You must ask yourself if you want to download
software or would you prefer to use a third party
web based service. Or, would you rather download a
new browser, like Firefox by Mozilla, that has the
capabilities of book-marking RSS feeds?
For the average user,
we suggest using a third party web based application
and see how RSS feeds work and then decide if you
would like to download software that offers other
custom features.
There is an excellent
summary of Windows based feed readers from
About Us
entitled "Top
10 Windows RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators"
For simplicity of use, we have selected
Bloglines
as an easy to use aggregator
Bloglines
is a great, web-based way to read RSS feeds. There's
no software to wrestle with, and using Bloglines is
smooth and easy. You can even subscribe to searches
in either your or all feeds and publish a blog with
remarkable simplicity. Try different
aggregators and choose the one you like.
Sign up for RSS now
and don't forget to add Daly Marketing Team to your
feeds. We provide monthly updates to our
readers with a variety of subjects and referrals to
those interested in marketing on the internet with
our Link:Through Marketing Services.
RSS Directories and Information Sources
These site are sources for you to pick feeds.
So when you want to keep up on Astro's news, the
local newspaper may be the best feed. Mix that
with your favorite cooking feed, marketing feed (Daly Marketing Team, of course),
fishing articles, engineering, technology, you name
it, and you have your own RSS feeds. Great
isn't it?
http://channels.lockergnome.com
- This is an
excellent site for excellent technical information,
games and rss feeds.
http://www.looselycoupled.com
- News on demand web services for
businesses.
http://channels.lockergnome.com/rss/resources
- This link has many rss feeds, (see on right
side of screen marked with a rss graphic)
http://www.syndic8.com
- This is an rss directory. It has literally
thousands of feeds to select from.
http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/services/rssify/rssify.php
- This form takes your web page and turns it
into RSS 0.92. This is especially useful for Blogger
users.
http://www.syndic8.com/
(NOTE: after going to this site, select
documents at the top of the page, then select "how
to document". - This is an excellent source for
finding many how to articles.
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