RSS Feeds

Some people have no clue what RSS is. So I am going to my best to explain them to everyone.

Amanda over at Rocketboom explains it pretty well with software.
Rocketboom November 11th 2005

She uses a Mac but all the software works on Mac and PC.

Currently blogger only supports the ATOM format but you can use sites like FeedBurner to conver them.

If you want to get really geeky on the differences between RSS 2.0 and ATOM 1.0 check out this article RSS and ATOM

Now your thinking why do I need this? Well I find it so useful to load up Bloglines and it shows what blogs have updated so I can decided if I want to take the time to go read them.


If you want my RSS Feeds here are the links.

ATOM: http://www.tristanpipo.com/blogger/atom.xml
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TristansBlog
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/siriusdudepodcast

Now the problem with feedburner is that there is a natural half an hour delay unless I go ping the Feeds myself. I can't track the ATOM file so I have no idea how many people use that but the feedburner one of my blog is displayed on the page. IF you want an update sent to you everytime I update you can sign up with your e-mail address on the right side of the page.

But with RSS I save have from having to dig and search through a websites updates and can just read the ones that I want. Click on it and loads that specific page. Saving me lots of time. But if you haven't caught onto the RSS craze be sure you do.

P.S. I have been on the real geek kick recently. =)