Subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds has really changed how I keep up with online information. After I started my own blog, I also started subscribing to other blogs—on topics such as news, book writing (computer books as well as fiction), publishing, and much more. I still search for information when I need, but because the feeds are updated periodically, I can easily catch up with the latest wave of thoughts and opinions (and only the ones I specifically want to keep up with). All the latest posts are right there in my RSS reader/aggregator. I like the idea of not having to go to individual specific Web sites to get my news and read about what's the latest in my areas of interest. Now I understand why you need an RSS feed for any online content. Without an RSS feed, you'd simply miss out on many in your potential audience who wants the steady, soothing drip-drip of their daily dose of syndicated content :-)
Speaking of subscribing to RSS feeds, the first thing I needed was an RSS reader and I did what any self-respecting Web aficionado would do—Google for "RSS Readers". In a few minutes I found out about all the popular RSS readers for the different platforms—Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Web (Web RSS aggregators are Web sites where you can read your feeds using your Web browser). I did not want to run yet another stand-alone application. Because I have several Web browsers always running, my choices were between a Web RSS reader or a reader that plugs into the Web browser. For reading feeds on the Web, Bloglines seemed like a good choice. As for a browser plugin for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), I accidentally found Pluck. After a quick download and an easy install, Pluck added a toolbar to IE6 (see figure).
I organized my subscribed feeds into folders and now I browse the feeds from a sidebar that I can toggle on or off. Anytime I visit a blog or a Web site with any XML feeds, the Feeds button on the toolbar gets activated and I can subscribe to the feed by clicking that button. All in all, Pluck seems to be working quite nicely for me, but all the extra steps of downloading and installing may be too much for many users. Luckily for those of us in blogosphere who dispense information through RSS/Atom feeds, the trend seems to be for Web browsers to support RSS/Atom feeds directly in the browser. Apple has even put RSS right in its Web browser's name: Safari RSS. And the recently-released Opera 8 Web browser lists "RSS/Atom newsfeed reader" as part of Opera Mail. Most likely Internet Explorer 7, which is in Beta 1 now, would probably include some sort of built-in support RSS/Atom feeds. That should really bring RSS/Atom feeds to the masses and with it an avalanche of new subscribers for the feeds.
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