Friday, January 22, 2010

GUess WHat? I got a taste of the medicine...

Last week, i blogged about how Technology has evolved so much such that humans can't live without internet. Just 16hrs ago, my modem broke down (supposedly out of power). i was out of internet!! i needed to send a draft assignment to lecturer, check my email, play a bejeweled game at facebook... immediately at 11:15pm, i called the technical support and arranged an appointment first thing today. Due to my network being Singtel Mio, my home telephone couldn't be used too.. what a whole lot of inconvenience.. the first thing i did when the internet was finally up just now at 2:30pm was... FACEBOOK!


Well, today I like to share about RSS. any idea what it means? Seen the logo on the right before?
That's right, its called Rich Site Summary.

Ever followed a blog before? I know a particular cute friend who follows friends' blog passionately. Do you find it a waste of time whenever you enter the blog only to find out he/she hasn't update for a long time? Forgot which blogs to go simply because you have too many of them? Fret not! Now with RSS, you need not go into each and every blog to search for new posts. The new posts COME TO YOU.
You will have a personalized site, where you can organize your RSS from blogs, news, movie reviews... etc. Next, subscribe to your friend's blog or CNN news or movie reviews... etc. With that, every time you log in your computer, you only need to go to your personalized site, and check on the NEW posts that will show up when your friends update their post on their individual blogs.

The next question you might ask is.. HOW?  First, you need a Reader. E.g. (www.google.com/reader). After that, go to the blogs you like, click on the RSS icon, Choose your reader from the list (blogline, yahoo, google...etc) and click "subscribe to feeds"! Easy right?

Now, I've done my homework.. most common blogs to me are blogspot, livejournal, wordpress. So both wordpress and livejournal has the RSS icon on the blog sites. Blogspot is more tricky. On your friend's blog address, enter /atom.xml.
For example, mosesmoses.blogspot.com --> mosesmoses.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Then the same thing happens again.. Choose Reader.. Click Subscribe.


Now you can save so much time surfing blogs.. the new ones come to you! ^_^
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2 comments:

  1. buzzJanuary 22, 2010 at 3:19 PM

    Ooh.. Just an update, you could even share your reader with friends/public. So that when enters your reader, they will get to read the new posts by YOUR friends too. :)

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  2. fen.fenJanuary 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    Cool... I NEVER knew abt RSS... Thanks for sharing, next time I will try. But meanwhile I will have no access to blogs once I reach Beijing 8 hours later. Haha.

    Indeed, Internet is so indispensible these days... There are things which you have to do via internet, like submitting assignments etc and no doubt, internet has made our lives so convenient, like internet banking etc. In fact, I cant imagine residing in Beijing away from my family and frens if internet is not available. Nonetheless, there are many applications on the internet that can be pretty addictive, time consuming and non-essential. Haha, like Facebook and games :) So Important then is also developing discipline.

    Anyway, I found your blog helpful! :)

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