0Let RSS save your time
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For those won’t don’t know it yet, RSS is a damn good time saver. Once you start playing around with it, RSS quickly become an addiction.
Here is the thing.
3 questions:
- how much time do you spend each day to go to the websites you like?
- once you’re on the said websites, how much time do you waste screening the webpages to find new information?
- are you sure you’re not forgetting a few websites in your daily checking routine?
In case you’ve answered “yes” to at least one of the questions above, reading the following will be extremely useful for you.
1 answer:
RSS reverses the whole checking process: instead of going to the websites to check what’s new on them, just let the websites come to you and deliver the news! The secret? Feeds. Feeds are files containing only the content recently published on a website: each time new content is posted on a website, its feed will be updated. Today, most websites generate at least one RSS feed (some generate several thematic feeds; for example, this very website generates one main feed and also feeds per categories). To benefit from these feeds, you will need a RSS aggregator. Once you’ve downloaded a desktop-based aggregator or created an account on an online one, you will be able to gather all the feeds you like on this aggregator.
The final result is: to know what’s going on on your favorite websites, just fire up your aggregator and check all feeds at once in a single place.
As all blogs, mine generates a RSS feed. You can grab it here.
In case you still have a few minutes to devote to this fantastic way of saving you literally several hours a week, why not watching this video which explains what I’ve written above in a maybe funnier way?
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