{"id":145,"date":"2024-04-09T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theedublogger.edublogs.org\/2008\/03\/29\/how-i-use-rss-to-make-my-life-easier\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T18:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:32:31","slug":"how-i-use-rss-to-make-my-life-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/how-i-use-rss-to-make-my-life-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we’ve tried our best to explain what is RSS and why it’s important to learn how to use<\/a>. And as we said it’s hard to explain probably because the power of RSS is really something you need to experience first hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re really into RSS — RSS power users may be an appropriate title since we grab every RSS opportunity to make our lives easier and maximise our ability to interact effectively with others.<\/p>\n

Remember that using RSS is a simple and effective way of keeping in touch when new information is added to a website without having to visit the site<\/strong>; instead information is brought to one location, a feed reader, to read whenever convenient.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us show you some of ways to use RSS with an RSS Reader.<\/p>\n

Subscribing To Blogs<\/h3>\n

\"ImageRead a lot of blogs by subscribing to their RSS feeds because blogging isn’t about working in a vacuum; it’s about the conversations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conversations aren’t about you just writing a reflective post that invites \/ encourages \/ evokes readers to express their opinion by writing comments on your post. It’s also about you engaging in conversations on others’ blogs by linking to their posts and writing comments on their posts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To engage effectively in blogging conversations, you need to subscribe to blogs that interest you.<\/p>\n

Effectively Managing Comments<\/h3>\n

\"Image<\/a>One of the most important tips for keeping up the conversations on blogs<\/a> is being very effective at managing your comments on other people\u2019s blogs<\/strong>. Getting good at this is when you use tools that track comments posted on other people’s blogs<\/strong> plus subscribe to the RSS feed from these tools.<\/p>\n

Whenever a person comments on a post that you have commented on, their comment is transferred from the post into your RSS Reader, so you can choose to immediately respond back if you want<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Managing Interactions on Flickr<\/h3>\n

Flickr<\/a> is really cool Web 2.0 tool that didn’t initially grab us back when it started because we didn\u2019t get the whole idea of sharing photos online and it’s \"Image<\/a>whole social networking aspect.<\/p>\n

Make Flickr friends and comment on their photos; your friends’ newest photos and any comments you make are automatically fed from Flickr to your RSS Reader<\/strong> (here are instructions of how to do it<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This interaction has shown a different glimpse of their life compared to what can be seen from reading their blogs or following them on twitter.<\/p>\n

RSS is More Than Blog Posts<\/h3>\n

As Rafa Ribas<\/a> said about a previous post on RSS<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There is more to RSS than just blog posts. You can RSS news, comments to your posts or others, audio and video, comic strips (I am an absolute fan of xkcd.com<\/a>), other people\u2019s bookmarks (del.icio.us<\/a>), and so on and so forth. In summary, RSS is a bit daunting at first, but absolutely amazing in its potential.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Image<\/a>We’ve only given a small glimpse into the ways to harness the power of RSS. Remember to look out for the RSS icon <\/strong> whenever you visit a web site<\/strong> and consider if subscribing to it’s feed will make your life easier and\/or more fun.<\/p>\n

FINAL THOUGHT<\/h3>\n

So have you set up a feed reader yet? If you’re just getting going – please let us know what’s working for you and what’s not.<\/p>\n

If you are experienced with using RSS how about telling us about the different RSS feeds besides blog posts that you subscribe to, and why you like subscribing to them.<\/p>\n

If you are enjoying reading this blog, please consider \"\"<\/a>Subscribing For Free!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So we’ve tried our best to explain what is RSS and why it’s important to learn how to use. And as we said it’s hard to explain probably because the power of RSS is really something you need to experience first hand. We’re really into RSS — RSS power users may be an appropriate title…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10863191,"featured_media":19214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[236342,236850,236327,236842],"tags":[70811,59854,633,40295,70812,123],"coauthors":[210693800],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-global-connections","category-growing-blog-readership","category-using-blogs-with-students","category-working-with-web-20-tools","tag-co","tag-cocomment","tag-flickr","tag-google-reader","tag-mment","tag-rss"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10863191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19191,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/19191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theedublogger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}