Service Notice: Switching To Feedburner
From today, The Levee Breaks’ RSS service is available via feedburner. The new feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheLeveeBreaks. If you’re using the RSS feed, I suggest you update your software to the address above.
What Are You Talking About, Levee?
RSS is a technology which notifies you whenever new articles are posted to a website, meaning you don’t have to constantly check back for updates.
Many sites that provide an RSS service display a little orange button 
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In order to view an RSS ‘feed’, you need an RSS reader program. These come in two flavours: regular software that you install on your PC and web-based services such as Rojo and Bloglines.
The BBC news website has a quality explanation of what RSS is and how to use it. If you’re interested in RSS, I’d suggest you read it.
How Do You Get Yours?
As someone who regularly reads and contributes to other Northern Irish websites, it would be impossible to keep up with the amount of content being posted on a daily basis. I use the Bloglines services to track the blogs I read most regularly.
I’d be interested to hear how many readers are using (or are aware of) RSS as a way to receive updates from websites. If any of you are interested in learning more, leave a comment and I’ll try to give a bit of advice on this.
I use it Levee, but none of this bloglines guff, just good old fashioned Firefox. I posted about RSS a while back, but didn’t get much feedback either.
Beano: Because I use a number of different computers, Bloglines suits me because it remembers my setting whereever I am. I did use FireFox’s live bookmarks feature for a while, and started to use Thunderbird for RSS.
However, I’m steering away from software-based RSS readers because they lack the flexibility of web-based readers.
Interesting. When I was at my old job I only read them at home or work (and maybe once a week/once a fortnight at my parents’).
Now at my new job, most blogs are blocked by filtering software, but if I can find an aggregator site that isn’t I might just try it