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| 11.28.2004
There are 3 steps in having a successful blog. The first is having something to say to either yourself and/or others. The second is setting up your blog with a design and structure that's compelling and easily integrates with a blog publishing tool such as Blogger which in an easy way to quickly publish your thoughts via a Web interface. The third and most complicated step is setting up an RSS feed. An RSS feed is a way for people to receive notification when a site is updated and to read the content of a site without having to visit it. An RSS file (or feed) is a simple XML file designed to be viewed by an application called a newsreader or news aggregator. This is the step that I'm currently stuck on. For work-related reasons, I've gone out to several other blogs and sites (my thanks to all of them) to find out some more information on RSS feeds. My thinking is that if this helps our development team, I can leverage some of that thinking for my blog....
There are loads of good newsreaders out there, including NetNewsWire for OS X and FeedDemon for Windows. There are also online newsreaders such as Bloglines. This is the step that is still in progress with this blog.
If you are using an online service just copy the target of the link, don't actually visit the link as it'll take you to a page that probably won't make a lot of sense.
RSS stands either for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication depending who you listen to. There are essentially 2 common formats, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. Despite their names, they are actually two different formats rather than different versions of the same format. However most newsreaders understand both formats so it shouldn't matter which one you use. there is also a new type of feed called Atom, however several popular newsreaders don't support this format, so I don't use it on this site.
If you'd like to learn more about RSS feeds have a look at this RSS article at xml.com or check out the book by Ben Hammersley entitled Content Syndication with RSS.
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