This Information Futures weblog has two RSS newsfeeds: one for new posts (or articles) and one for comments. You can subscribe to these RSS feeds from anywhere on the blog site.
If you haven’t yet experimented with using RSS or Atom newsfeeds to keep up with your favorite web sites and news services, why not give it a whirl?
Let’s start with a short video, RSS in Plain English, created by a San Francisco company called Common Craft. This video introduces the general concepts of RSS newsfeeds.
Learn more about feedreaders and aggregators from Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article will help you identify which type of feedreader would best suit your information-gathering habits.
If you prefer to read newsfeeds along with your daily dose of email, Microsoft provides a tutorial about reading newsfeeds in Outlook.
If you would prefer to read newsfeeds in your web browser, blogger John Bokma offers a step-by-step tutorial on reading newsfeeds in your Firefox browser. (About 23 per cent of visitors to the Melbourne University web site use Firefox.) Recent versions of Safari and Internet Explorer offer similar built-in functionality.
For other options, including downloadable ‘aggregator’ software, the Open Directory project provides a categorised list of feedreaders and aggregators.