kimiko dreams

So you want to subscribe to my blog feed but aren’t sure how….

The best way to get an updated accounting of my newest posts is either to bookmark my site and check every day or use a blog feed reader. Most people these days read all their favorite blogs in one handy need little place. People on LiveJournal have a friend’s list that puts all the blogs in one nice page. However, that doesn’t help them when it comes to the other 95% of the world not using LiveJournal. Everyone else not using LiveJournal uses RSS feeds to subscribe to a blog site and then uses an RSS feed reader to either open a webpage that gathers all the blogs they’ve joined or have a program like FeedDemon that opens and shows them all the blogs they have subscribed to.

So what’s an RSS feed anyway? (snagged from here)

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s basically a computer-readable summary of the content of a Web page. This summary might be just the headlines of the articles on the page, the headlines plus a sentence or two excerpt of the articles, or even the headlines plus the entire articles. These are known as “headline only”, “headline + excerpt” and “full text” feeds, respectively.

There are, of course, nuances, because RSS is now used for a lot more than just Web pages comprised of a set of articles (e.g., weblogs). For example, the New York Times has a set of RSS feeds that let you subscribe to just the movie reviews or just their business news.

Typically, you recognize an RSS feed because there’s a cute little orange or blue button labeled “XML”, “RDF” or “RSS”, like this:

 

 

 

To read more about this kind of thing and even get a step by step tutorial of how to add a feed via Newsgator come read here. If however, you already get the jist of it….below you’ll find some links that will make adding my feed a tad easier for you.

If you have a software feed reader such as FeedDemon simply click  and add me.

Below are the more well known browser readers. Just click on the icon to add me. And if you belong to LJ…get a feed reader for all of your friends who don’t update to LiveJournal for God’s Sake!

Going here will give you a list of Free RSS aggregators in all their various forms. I could add a zillion little buttons like this below but all you really need to know is: When someone asks you what Kimi’s RSS feed is….you say http://www.kimiko-dreams.com/feed

Here are a few quick buttons to RSS browser readers. Click here for more cute little buttons that link to my feed. (half way down the page)