Friday, October 5, 2007

Week 4: #8 Make life "really simple" with RSS and a newsreader

Well, I've set up my Bloglines account and subscribed to various feeds. I can see why it would be useful to know about this, I don't think I'll be using very often. Right now the most convenient subscription is weather reports for friends and family in other cities, although I enjoy the entertainment newsfeeds.

While looking for feeds to subscribe to, I discovered that I could save RSS feeds on my computer and access them from the Favorites list on Explorer. I chose Ken Hoffman's article on Houston Chronicle and Northwest Headlines on the Portland Oregonian site. I don't buy the Chronicle everyday, so having a feed to Hoffman's column is fun.

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