I was reading PeoriaIllinoisan’s post, “An Open Letter to Bloggers,” and got lambasted by this line:
Your blog doesn’t have an Atom/RSS/XML syndication feed. It was smashing stuff, truly, but I keep forgetting to check it for new posts and articles. If you had a syndication feed — it’s a built-in option with most blogging software — I could bookmark your blog in Bloglines.com or any desktop newsreader, and be alerted to every update.
Well, I’ve never used syndication feeds, so I never really thought about it before. It turns out that these feeds were built-in to the snazzy WordPress software, but I didn’t have any links to make it easy for people to subscribe.
So now, taking a cue from the Blogfather, I’ve signed up with FeedBurner to make it easy and convenient for you to add my little blog to your newsreader. I’ve added a “Subscribe” link in the menu bar at the top of the page, as well as on the side bar under the “Meta” menu. I hope you all find this to be a useful addition to the site.
If you have any other suggestions to make the site more user-friendly or interesting, leave me a comment or shoot me an e-mail. As always, thanks for reading!
I subscribe through bloglines.com which works well also. Keeps me from having to check blogs every day.
Firefox has a builtin feed reader. Just click on the little feed icon in the address bar. I check a lot of feeds, so I also use the Sage extension for Firefox which makes organizing feeds easy.
Firefox:
http://www.getfirefox.com
Sage:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/77/