Using RSS feeds with Firefox

When I launched a blog called RuminOcean, about interfaith peacemaking, one of my new readers asked me how she could easily find her way back to the blog page to check whether I had made any new entries. I replied to her that there is an even easier way to keep up with a blog, by subscribing to it through an RSS feed (really simple syndication). Following were my instructions to her. Perhaps you may find them useful too:

Blogs can be subscribed to, so that your web browser automatically checks the blog page to see whether there has been a posting since the last check, and if there has been, listing that posting for you, the subscriber, in an easily accessible listing.

This process is called RSS (really simple syndication). When you want to subscribe to a blog, you look for a button on the blog page that says RSS feed. You may have noticed a button like that on my blog page. You can subscribe to my blog by clicking that button and following the directions (if, say, you are using Internet Explorer).

However, I suggest that you use Firefox.

RSS feeds are even easier to set up with Firefox. For instructions, in Firefox go to:

http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and-live-bookmarks.html

The author of that instruction page says that he likes to put the orange icon for the RSS feed in his Bookmarks Toolbar. (That's the toolbar that appears at the top of your Firefox browser). I would suggest your placing the RSS feed icon there too. That way, you will always have a link to my blog one click away. When you click on that orange icon, it will give you a menu of all the recent posts to my blog. You click on the one you want to read, and presto, you're there.

This article was written by TCDavis

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