Im in ur blogfeed, finding funnies
In another giant step in my quest to not be so completely tecnically unfunctional, I signed up for blog reader service. I have NewsGator for no other reason than I stumbled upon it randomly. So if Teho and Mariser want to point out how trailer trash that is compared to whatever they are using, fine. I'm just pleased with being able to add my own feed linkies.
And considering I signed up for work and to keep up on the news in the arts world, I found this very helpful Hello Kitty Hell, "One Man's Life with Cute Overload". It's a blog dedicated to ranting about Hello Kitty crap and has nothing to do with anything but putting off what I'm supposed to working on. I thought this was particularly cute, although I don't have an ipod and do not plan on getting one any time soon.
*ranting and yelling about computer not cooperating*
Okay - apparently I'm so techno-challenged I can't upload the photo. I think I'm limited to one technical advancement a day. The link above will go straight to the ipod charger.
(I also can't get any streaming video/live scores for the MSU/Maine hockey game. My North Dakota friend is feeding me updates via text messaging. Yay! State is winning. Boo! To my system for being hosed. And GO North Dakota in the late game!)
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(I may be a little slow, I'm just back from pounding the laundry on wet rocks out back.)
So far you rule.
Yeah, I thought it would go to my email as it sounded like that was what I signed up for. However, I ended up with an account with the blogfeed service so I have to log in on the website and see what's going on in the world.
After I log onto Vox and see what's going on my in 'hood, of course.
RSS or RSS feeds is, a code that allows sites or blogs to publish their content. in order to 'see' the RSS feed, one uses a 'reader' (newsgator, for example) to subscribe to the feed. the reader then checks the blog and retrieves and displays new content. (I hope this makes sense)
I hadn't checked out newsgator. I'm on it now: it looks like when you sign-on you go to a newsgatoronline page that already has many feeds on it. to add feeds you need to click on the top right corner "Add Feeds", where you are there presented with with several choices: browse thru their offerings, search (like for "cute overload") and so on. once you find a feed of interest, you add it.
if you like, you can delete the built-in feeds and just leave the ones you are interested on. it seems that you have to go to the newsgator online page and log-in to see your feeds.
mc2, I don't think RSS feeds show in your email. actually if you check on the left column of CO, there are two options: "Subscribe to the cute" (the RSS feed) and "CuteMail" to get the day's posts sent to your email (Outlook or what-have-you)
readers vary a great deal in capabilities, complexities, and power. I've heard good things about the GoogleReader but havent' tried it out. for those of us who use FireFox for our Internet browser instead of Explorer, there is a very basic readed called Sage. Bloglines also has a reader.
hope this helps!
;)