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Megan
08-03-2007, 05:59 AM
*still fails to understand the concept of RSS* :(
Megan
08-03-2007, 09:01 AM
*is very very very confused* SARA!
ses5909
08-03-2007, 09:19 AM
*is very very very confused* SARA!

Patience my dear!

Basically RSS Stands for "Really Simple Syndication". Why do you care? Well it let's people subscribe to your blog so when they go check in their feed reader (I recommend google reader (http://www.google.com/reader)) so anytime you make a post, everyone who has subscribed will know it! That is a good thing for you and for growing your blog. Repeat readers are a good thing!
doorlight
08-03-2007, 09:56 AM
I use my live bookmark of my browser, which is Firefox.
Like for example, I will be clicking your feed http://girlabouttheworld.wordpress.com/feed/ and add it. So I don't have to check your site over and over just to see if you updated your site, or you post a new entry. That's it.
BPartch
08-03-2007, 04:45 PM
As far as a user goes it allows me to keep track of content from 100's of sites in one location, making it easy for me to browse through the content to find articles of interest to me.

As doorlight mentioned this prevents me from having to remember to visit each site hoping they have added new content each day.

There are a few sites I visit that offer no RSS feed and they annoy me to no end. :)
Megan
08-04-2007, 10:26 AM
This is great! What a time saver :) I made a Google account and I am going to add everyone :D:D Thanks for the lesson guys!
Calypso
08-05-2007, 02:36 AM
If I wanted to offer RSS feed, how would I go about it? Is there a special plug in or something?
samwoodfin
08-05-2007, 03:55 AM
You already have feeds at both of your blogs, Calypso. I'm subscribed to them. ;)
ses5909
08-05-2007, 07:50 AM
Yep, looks like it's already there: http://weightlossthoughts.com/?feed=rss2
aussietico
08-05-2007, 09:15 AM
To be more exact RSS is a standardised method for describing blog posts and similarly-structured data using XML. XML is a platform and language independent tag-based language for describing data in a way that it can be read by any scripting or programming language easily.
goldfries
08-05-2007, 10:59 AM
a great place to make fullest use of your RSS would be at
http://www.feedburner.com/

:D