Talking about blogging

The previous post was about RSS feeds. One of the great things you can do with them is bring together all the latest information from a range of websites and blogs, of your choice. To do this you need to use a newsreader. There is a very easy to use newsreader at Google (a Google account is needed) which is a good place to start with your own news selection.

As a demonstration I have set up a newsreader account at www.newsgator.com. The user name is ‘Suffolk’ and the password ’smug07′ . There are two folders — Mac and Photography. Select folder and feeds from all the sites subscribed to are displayed, either with the latest first or in blocks from each feed. Use Display Options to change this.)

By clicking the + sign on the folder all the feesd are shown and can be displayed individually.

Please explore and feel free to add your own feeds. Mostly sites which have feeds will have the little orange symbol . Mostly, you just have to go to ‘add feeds’ in Newsgator paste in the site URL and the feel url will be “discovered”.

On bigger sites, like the BBC, you may have to follow a link to find the RSS details for the feed you need eg Suffolk news.

Enjoy.