TTT#3—from “Journalism 2.0”
A cool Web site to access and get registered on is: www.delicious.com
What is “delicious”?
Think of it as a Web site to store all your favorite URLs.
Yes, you can bookmark your favorites on your home or office computer.
But what if you’re away from your computer? What if you’re working in Shanghai or Baghdad or Baguio (in the Philippines)?
Go to “delicious” and find your bookmarked sites—really a big time saver.
Yes, you can look your favorites up via Google, but why do that.
Enough about “delicious.”
Let’s switch to RSS feeds.
RSS=Really Simple Syndication. (And it’s free, to boot.)
Allows you to keep up with what several people or sources are saying about a particular topic.
Allows you to subscribe to info., and it’s similar to bookmarking a Web site but is much more powerful.
Instead of visiting several different Web sites each day or doing the same Web searches over and over, let an RSS feed do that for you.
Easy way to set up an RSS feed: www.google.com/ig
Sign up for an acct.
Select the info. you’d like to get automatically, and then arrange the feeds on your page the way you want them to appear. Move them around by clicking and dragging the boxes. Each time you return, the links will be updated automatically with the latest info. from those Web sites.
How to find a feed: Locate a link to RSS on the Web site with the content you want to be “fed” automatically. (Little orange icon will show the availability of RSS).
Click on the link to obtain the RSS URL (notice it in the address window of your browser.) Copy this URL into your acct. at www.google.com/ig
Be well fed with info. you’re interested in. Be fed while you snooze or play. Set up RSS feeds!
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