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For those not familiar with RSS, trust me, you’re going to love it. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
When most of my blog readers were subscribing via regular email, a few would tell me that I was sending them a lot of emails. Thing was, I was only blogging up to 3x a month! Blogging is much more advanced in the USA than in Canada, where many photographers blog almost daily. It’s very interactive, with readers leaving comments daily and garnering a rapport with the photograher.
Wikipedia defines it very simply: RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format.
Instead of clogging up your email’s inbox with more email than it already receives, RSS Readers keep all of the RSS feeds you subscribe to in one convenient place, either in a separate section of your email program, or via a third party desktop or web based application.
It’s completely unobtrusive, and your feeds wait for you to read them. You can unsubscribe from a RSS feed at any time by simply deleting it from your list. So subscribe to as many feeds as you like. Your email address and info is anonymous, too.
To help get you started, if you’re new to the world of RSS, here’s some useful links.
For Apple Mail, you’re in luck, as it has a built-in RSS Reader.
For Windows users using Outlook, Newsgator integrates seamlessly.
And if you’d like to use a web-based RSS Reader, Google Newsreader does everything you’ll need.
Subscribing via RSS is the best way to keep up to date on what we’re up to.
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