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Tonight I learned more about feed readers and rss feeds. I had feeds on this site – for rss1, rss2 and for comments rss. So I thought I was doing it pretty well. But for some reason I decided to go exploring and learn more about the world of feed readers in general and FeedBurner in specific.
Flowers I, Digital © Diane Clancy
Now I remember … I checked out the sites of people I tagged yesterday and one person, Chris O’Byrne, had an article, About trackbacks, on feed readers and pointed to another article, Blog Readership Rising, on another blog. So off I went into the wild blue yonder …
One thing I found out reading at FeedBurner is that they recommend using a feed reader on your desktop rather than a web-based news feed reader. I have looked for the article there and I can’t find it again. But they said that some of the most popular news feed readers sort of take over your feeds and go snooping. Sorry I can’t find that quote. But the essence is that they say your privacy is safer if you bring the news to your desktop rather than going to a news service that is web-based because they are always looking for other feeds.
So a friend suggested NetNewsWire (and the Lite is free) and Vienna (free) for Macs. So I am set up to read some of the blogs I like by feed reader. If you like, I have gotten my feeds in better shape and it should be easy for you to keep up through feeds. There is even a comment if you want to keep up with comments.
~ Diane Clancy
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Diane…glad you can make sense of all this. I think I have to go back to school or get my teenager son to hold my hand so I can understand all this… But hey, I admire you for doing it.
Hi Diane,
I’ll be back when I want a better education on this. You will soon become the next blogging guru-ess! 🙂
~ Sue O’Kieffe
http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com
Hi Sue ~
Thank you for your kind words. But seriously, part of why I added a category (technology) yesterday, was so that you (and I) CAN come back and re-find information that I know I will probably need to look at again.
Also that is why I use so many tags … that way I (and hopefully you) can find things again that I need refreshing on.
~ Diane Clancy
Hi Neda ~
I think it is great that so many young people seem to just absorb this kind of info – just through the ether.
Our great grandparents wouldn’t have know what to do with a phone – yet many of us on the web just know how to use a phone – it is obvious – we grew up with them. Though I still don’t know how to use a cell phone – I don’t have one.
Thank you also for your kind words – I have to work REAL hard to learning this stuff – but I get so satisfied when I do.
~ Diane Clancy