RSS is a cool technology that lets you keep track of your favourite websites saving you the time of bookmarking sites and manually returning to them to check for updates. Simply put - if you subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog, you don’t come to Niponwave but let Niponwave come to you. The RSS feed will tell you when I update my site and you can read the new posts right in your feed reader.
There are many feed readers out there. Of note is the Google Reader and Bloglines among web-based feed readers and FeedDemon among the standalone softwares. Out of these two, I have found a comfy factor with FeedDemon.
FeedDemon lets you sync all your feeds to your NewsGator account. FeedDemon’s upcoming version, now in its beta release, will have support for integration with your Google Reader account as well which is really great news!
I have subscribed to a good many feeds from sites of various nature which constantly ‘feed’ me with the latest news, blogs, stories and gossip. I just glance through the headlines and read the full text if something interests me. Not all websites publish the entire article in the feed though, you will get a summary instead and you can click through to the source site to read the whole article.
To start with, you can subscribe to some of the feeds on Rediff site. If humor is what you want, subscribe to the FML RSS feed get your daily dose of FMLs!!
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But there is one unusual catch in having all your close reader reading your blog via RSS feed…. that is the impact on number of comment. For instance, I read max blog now via Google Reader… and don’t feel like to click on the post and comment.
Though AD revenue does not get impacted but than number of comments do. So if you are writing personal weblog… you may not wish people to subscribe more… you would wish them to visit more.. more visit will lead to more comment.
What say ?
Comments are the best prize a blogger can get! So you have an interesting point. But you know, for any given post, it will strike a chord with some readers at least who will feel compelled to comment and visit your blog to do so.
Most of the time even if reader is compelled… he’s by default lazy to do so….
Though I will look forward for some new tech… which can help two way communication via RSS readers..