To begin with, I recommend you try some tutorials. My favorite tutorial is here. If you prefer video, here's a short series of tutorials on RSS for law librarians. The first two videos are really good for anyone who needs a solid introduction to RSS. This video tutorial on YouTube, shows you how to read RSS feeds on RSS Bandit and Google Reader. RSS Bandit is a free program you can use on your desktop. Google Reader, as you may remember, is my recommended Web-based reader. If you use Yahoo! Mail, this tutorial explains how to use RSS feeds with the new Beta version of Yahoo! Mail. If you want a simple tutorial using Bloglines (another very popular online feed reader), click here.
Once you have a feel for how RSS feeders work, you'll want to start adding feeds. Yahoo! Mail's feed reader and a few others come pre-loaded with some popular news sources already added. But you'll want to add others. If you've installed an RSS reader on your computer, or you use Firefox, IE 7, or the Google Toolbar, simply click here. You'll get a prompt asking you if you want to add Legalese to your reader. Click, yes, and from now on, you'll be notified when we post here.
If you look in the right sidebar, you'll notice an number of other options for reading Feeds online. If you'd like to try one of those services, click on the button, and you can sign up for a Web-based reader. Many Web sites and blogs will feature these buttons to make adding their feed easier. Look for them whenever you want to add a feed.
Finally here are few other tips:
- To search for feeds by subject matter, try using an RSS search engine like Feedster or RocketInfo.
- Check out this list of the 100 most subscribed to feeds.
- If you're looking for blogs, try Google Blog Search or Sphere.
- Audioblogs or Podcasts are also built on RSS technology. To learn more about podcasting, click here.
1 comment:
Yes, yes, yes! I cannot believe how under-used RSS feeds are. Everyone should be a RSS feed power-user. The world would be such a nicer place.
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