Comments on: Not Using an RSS Reader? You Ignorant Time-Waster!

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Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:46:39 +0000

[…] RSS: RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it’s basically just a way to allow people to sign up to receive your blog posts (or other kinds of posts) automatically through an RSS reader. An RSS reader is a program either installed on a computer or found online that receives all the articles (or other media) that a person signs up to receive. It’s basically a way to just check one place to get all your articles instead of going to every website individually. For more information about RSS, please check out the article from the Christian Web Trends blog, “What is RSS” or their slightly more offensive article, “Not Using an RSS Reader? You Ignorant Time-Waster!”. […]

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» 4 More Interactive Blogging Tips — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:59:34 +0000

[…] 4) Email Makeover. Since most of you subscribe to Christian Web Trends by email (despite my attempts to convince you switch to an RSS reader ), I decided to give the email notification an HTML makeover. It will be interesting to see if more people read the articles because the email has color and graphics. […]

By: Adam's Blog

Adam's Blog — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:02:26 +0000

Well Said

Not Using an RSS Reader? You Ignorant Time-Waster!

By: IndyChristian

IndyChristian — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:23:13 +0000

Conversely, CHURCHES not PROVIDING an RSS-feed could (should?) be chastised for overlooking the opportunity to help its members easily stay informed re what’s new at their site. We’ve even provided a howto re an innovative ‘quick & dirty’ workaround for older websites to easily provide such a feed. Visit the Internet Tool Kit (wiki)… http://ubcafe.pbwiki.com/RSS-Feeds

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:51:35 +0000

I just wanted to tell Myles that I went back to his blog and saw “Blog Info” up in the “inside title bar” for lack of a better term. I hovered my mouse over that and a pull-down menu showed up and among the choices offered was a chance to subscribe to it, which I did. It didn’t give me a choice to subscribe using Google but opened up a new window using a beta program within wordpress called Blog Surfer.

The only way to access it is to go to my Dashboard and then click on the new Blog Surfer tab so it definitely isn’t as user friendly as a typical RSS feed… unless, of course, I find out that I get an emails or something that, notifying me of new blogs.

Anyway, I thought I’d give you an update on that…and let Phil know, too. 😉

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:38:58 +0000

Thanks again, Paul! I am really glad you wrote this blog and are offering this help! I went back to netvibes but it sure seemed like they still wanted my email address and THAT password. They sure don’t make it clear.

The good news is that I took the time to go to my google.com page and set up a new tab there…which I don’t think I needed to do but I didn’t know that at the time…then I came back to this page and clicked on the subscription link and chose to subscribe using google and it worked! I went back to my page and found it in a new box on that page.

I have been wanting to learn how to do this so I’m really happy that I posted on this blog and gotten the feedback that I have received! Thank you!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:10:45 +0000

Thanks, Myles!

I didn’t see what you were talking about at your website (which, by the way, looks good so I have it open in another tab to go back and read later), but since I have a blog at wordpress, I am already signed in and didn’t see a place to sign in. That’s probably why I didn’t see it, I guess, since I am signed in already. Thanks for your tips and help, though! I really appreciate everything!

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:27:09 +0000

You are right about the title. If I am crucified with Christ then I should be a dead man walking and should not take offense. What part of a dead man gets offended?

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:49:24 +0000

The number of RSS subscribers to CWT has more than doubled to 105 in the last 18 hours. Awesome!

I’d love to hear from some of you who started using an RSS feed reader for the first time after reading this article… describing what you were doing, what RSS reader you decided to use, and what you think of it,

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:39:30 +0000

Susan, netvibes is more than just an RSS reader. It’s a personal homepage which you can set up to include your news feeds, weather, pictures, bookmarks, and more. You can also read your email through netvibes if you want to, but it’s optional.

When you sign up for an account it does ask you for your email address and a password, but you do not have to give them the actual password for your email account. Your email address becomes your netvibes username and whatever password you type in becomes your netvibes password.