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What is this RSS thing?
This email just popped into the LeftyBlogs inbox.
You have a great site and I'd like my increasingly popular progressive blog to be added to your list, but I have no idea what an rss feed is, and so am not seemingly able to register with you. Could you explain this to me so I can submit my site?
My answer:
In short, an RSS feed is a highly-formatted version of the pure content data of a website/blog.
For example, check out my personal blog and its RSS feed.
Same stuff, but the feed is highly structured. Most blogging systems automatically generate an RSS feed.
Basically, RSS allows others to grab the content, read it, and do stuff with it. There are lots of things people might do with it - including 'subscribe' to it using a reader similar to an email program.
For a more complete - but still understandable explanation - check out the Wikipedia.
[Cross-posted at PoliticsAndTechnology.com.]
Posted by Kari Chisholm on August 15, 2005 03:33 PM
Comments
You realize that by me adding the rss feeds for both blogs, i'm suffering from rss burn now...
Posted by Jason Gooljar on August 15, 2005 04:40 PM
Well, yeah, that's what happens when you update every 10-15 minutes. Look at it this way: people can come here to find you - not have hundreds doing their own refreshing.
Posted by Kari Chisholm on August 16, 2005 01:15 AM
I just set up this blog for TX21 Congressional District on blogspot, and it uses an atom feed. Can you take that feed at all or are we SOL on blogspot?
Posted by tx21 on August 16, 2005 03:38 PM
Hey tx21 - I just subscribed to their Politics&Technology feed and one of the options was atom, so I suspect they can use it...I also made some suggestions yesterday that they took and I think some may have been atom also...
numen
Posted by numen on August 16, 2005 08:54 PM
Yes, atom.xml is just fine. Gotta clarify that - good point. Thanks!
Posted by Kari Chisholm on August 17, 2005 12:28 AM
How long does it take for a post to show up here? I'm using atom at blogspot. Just trying to get an idea how long I need to wait before I begin trouble shooting a problem that I don't really understand too well.
Posted by Zubalove on September 15, 2005 05:51 AM
