RSS Geekery

If you’ve never experienced reading blogs and journals via RSS, you’re missing out. RSS has dramatically changed the way I interact with the web. Using a feedreader has enabled me to keep up with many more blogs in a much shorter amount of time… while still leaving me with the option of curling up with one or two rainy-afternoon blogs to read in depth.

For those of you unfamiliar with RSS, may I recommend:

• Lockergnome’s RSS Quickstart Guide (added 01.10.04)
• About.com’s "What is RSS"

My feed readers of choice:

• FeedDemon for PC
• NetNewsWire
  for Mac

Here’s a pretty comprehensive list of readers:

• RSS Reader List at Blogspace

I highly recommend blog authors use RSS to syndicate their content. Here’s a good how-to (which also explains, further, how and why someone would want to read blogs via RSS readers):

• Webmonkey RSS How-to

And then move on to:

• WebReference.com rss resource
• Lockergnome RSS Resource

Does anyone have additional resources to add?

• Salon’s RSS for Laymen (Added Dec 12.03)

For those of you accessing this site via an rss reader, I’ve changed the default feed to do the full text¹ of the feed.

<strike>Better yet: A 2.0 feed is now available! Here are the current feeds.
(2.0 – Full Text)
(0.92 – Full Text)

</strike>-links broken 2005.04.05

I will soon enable topic feeds (including an all new "remaindered links" feed)… little by little, kids.

¹While looking for RSS resources to link, I found this discussion on full vs. excerpted RSS feeds. I prefer reading the full text in RSS, so that’s what I’m providing.

(Updated Jan 01, 2004: Reordered content. Added Blogspace link)