Wednesday, 1 May 2013

RSS feeds and feed readers

Experiment with embedding RSS feeds in your blog. Consider news services or event feeds ("What's on") for dynamic updates. If you prefer, set up a feed reader as a one-stop-place for all your information.

Above is the challenge I am faced with.  As I posted previously, I have embedded the BBC News feed into this blog as you can see.  So far, so good!  I don't think I realised that a feed reader was a different type of animal!   I somehow thought that a feed reader would enable me to read all my chosen feeds in one 'window' in my blog.  I think now that it is a totally different place for me to go on the web, although I could be wrong!

I had a go at using Feedly which I did manage to sign up for, but then got stuck.  So I tried Bloglines instead and have created my own web page.  It seems to be along the same lines as this blog - in that there is a dashboard you can tinker around in, then a private page for personal use.  Have decided against going on to create a public page.  Don't see the purpose of doing that at the moment, but it's an option perhaps for the future.


2 comments:

  1. This is a good website you might like to have a look at every now and again. It also has an RSS feed.

    The website is "The Register" and the website address is: http://www.theregister.co.uk/

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  2. Do you use it? Looks a bit advanced for me! Perhaps I can aspire to to reading it?!
    Have tried to access your blog as Lisa seems to be finding it very helpful, but I don't know how to. Can you help? I cannot link from the main BPC Library blog page or from the invitation you sent. Wonder what I'm doing wrong?! So much for me to learn.....!

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