Andrews Family

Asked anyone if they’ve sent you email today? Probably not because you would’ve seen it in your inbox. So why do you go to websites to check if they’ve been updated when RSS is like an ‘inbox’ for the web. That’s right, another post on RSS. If you haven’t caught on by now, I think you should be using RSS. For all of the details on RSS you can refer back to my original post on RSS. Now I realize that in order for you to try it if you aren’t already using it, it has to be easy to get started and easy to use. My previous post’s main suggestion was a desktop RSS reader and lacked a suggestion for a good on-line RSS reader. An on-line aggregator has some attractive points. You don’t have to install anything and you can access it from anywhere such as work and home.

Well, Google has come through again, this time with its on-line RSS reader called Google Reader. I had tried it out at the time of my previous post and I didn’t think it was ready for prime-time yet. Last week it got an update and I’ve been test driving it and really like it for an on-line RSS reader. I’ll let you go and take a tour of it yourself, but it now has folders showing unread feeds just like most desktop readers. In order to get you jump-started here are links to all of our feeds:

• Blog Posts: http://www.drozmonkey.com/feed/
• Blog Comments: http://www.drozmonkey.com/comments/feed/
• Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/drozmonkey?kind=album&alt=rss&hl=en_US&access=public
• JR’s Shared Items in Google Reader (as seen in the sidebar widget on the right): http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/13604510482216828753/state/com.google/broadcast