Killingtonblog.com supports RSS

Killingtonblog.com supports RSS

Over the last couple of days, some of you may have noticed some different little symbols and links appearing on the blog. Thats because I have been working to integrate a RSS feed into the blog.

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It's actually quite a few lines of software, so programming it was interesting, but for you, the reader, it introduces several nice features. If your computer (I develop on an Apple Dual G5 so I refuse to call it a pee cee) is equipped with a modern web browser like Apple's Safari, or Mozilla's Firefox, or Opera, you can subscribe to the RSS feed from Killingtonblog.com and get notified automatically when a new entry is posted. You can also get a standalone RSS reader to do the job, or subscribe to one of several Blog Syndication sites (for instance if you have a My Yahoo account, you can configure a content box to point to www.killingtonblog.com/rss.xml) . I have been using RSS to scan many online newspapers. If you have not used RSS before, it's actually very useful.

For those of you without RSS capability but curiosity gets the better of you, if you click on the RSS button on the menu, you will see a page of computer code, which is actually the RSS feed in a web language called XML (or Extensible Markup Language for those who want to know).