Sunday, April 6, 2008

Tip for VIrgins to the Blogosphere--Set Up an RSS Feed

If you don't want to keep checking this blog regularly for new posts, and would rather have new stuff "fed" to you automatically when the blog changes, I strongly recommend using RSS.

RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") works via either a reader or via email.  

I read a lot of blogs, and personally don't like to clutter my email with the feeds.  Instead, I use Google Reader (actually, I have a iGoogle homepage that has tabs to organize the RSS feeds from blogs of interest).  There are many others, though, if you don't like Google.

Bottom line:  I don't have to check for new stuff...the system automatically sends it to me.



3 comments:

Mike M said...

Hey Manoj. This is the first blog I've ever read, and I (at least used to) feel pretty tech savy. What kind of blogs do you regularly read?

Anonymous said...

I try to keep up on health care news, health policy, etc.--have to for my job, actually. In this category, I read:

Health Affairs Blog
Health Beat
Health Populi
Health Wonk Review
KaiserNetwork.org:Health Policy Daily Report
Kevin, MD
Managed Care Matters
The Health Care Blog
The Physician Executive
WSJ.com: Health Blog

I also read management & business blogs:

Fast Company
HBS Working Knowledge
Knowledge at Wharton
The Center for Creative Leadership
Strategy + Business
Tom Peters' blog
Seth Godin's blog (a marketing blog)

Finally, I've got a tab called "misc" that includes a whole variety of stuff:

Spin magazine
Rolling Stone
DJ Mag
...and of course WTMMB

The blogs with music, playlists, etc. aren't worth setting up a regular feed...I just search periodically.

Anonymous said...

I forgot...there is one site that I check out a lot for music.

The Hype Machine (http://hypem.com) follows music blog discussions and pulls them together. It's a great site for checking out (actually listening to) new music.