RSS and what is it all about

Ok so you see all those RSS (Really Simple Syndication or) icons and everything out there and you wonder what they are. So I will tell you: the thing with RSS is that you can subscribe to someones posts for new updates that they have done to their website/blog, in my case I have three RSS feeds:
Post Feed
Comments Feed
Media feed
The first two I have through feedburner, which is a service that tracks your stats for who is subscribing to your RSS and makes the look of your RSS feed easier to read instead of the XML (Extensible Markup Language) version of your feed. The last one is just the XML version because I have not totally configured it. (Click above links to see difference)

If you subscribe to somebody’s blog then you have to use a “feed reader”. Meaning something that interfaces between the website/blog and feed to gather the updated content and deliver it to you. I use outlook for a lot of my feeds but there are many others out there that I really haven’t used yet. But I’ve tried Google feed reader and and its pretty good too. If the website/blog administrator has updated his/her content than you will have a notification that new feeds are available in your inbox (for Outlook). If not you won’t have anything, simple as that.

Then it just shoes up like any other inbox: (Click Picture)


So you might be wondering how to do all this and so I will guide you through (at least how to get my feed).

Now we begin if you are reading this right now and you see the column on the right you should see something that looks like this:

The first one
is my blog feed for all my updated content (blog posts).
The second one
is for updated blog comments (comments that other people have made on my website). Then there are a few other random things that you probably are wondering what they are:

The first one:
is the number of subscribers subscribed to my feed at the current time. If you click on it it goes to my feed.
The next one is just some feedburner love that I like to show on my page:
click on it and it goes to feedburner website.
Now the other ones
These are all the different feed readers that I thought would be nice to let users pick instead of going to feed and then selecting it.

Now to the nitty gritty (how to set up feed reading): Click on the feed link:
Then click subscribe and set it up it is pretty self explanatory after that. If you have any questions or comments please let me know.