A Pilgrim’s Digression

If you use RSS to keep track of this site, you will need to update your feed. Since I moved to WordPress last week, the old feed won’t work.

If you don’t use RSS (Real Simple Syndication), you might want to consider it, not just for this site but for many others. Most news sites offer RSS. I have feeds for both The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Firefox has the simplest way to track RSS, I think. In Firefox, if a site is syndicated, you can find an orange icon at the bottom right corner of the browser window. Click that and it creates a “Live Bookmark” in your bookmarks folder. Every time you go to that bookmark, it updates to reflect the latest news from that site. For a blog, it might provide bookmarks to the latest five posts, for example.

I’ve tried RSS in Opera, which I downloaded a few weeks ago when it officially became a free browser. I didn’t find it to be as simple or convenient as in Firefox, however. Safari for OS X.4 comes with RSS syndication, also; but I am still running X.3, so I can’t report on how it works. I don’t care much for Safari generally, however, so I’m prepared to be unimpressed.

There are also free, standalone RSS readers, but if you have Firefox, you dont need one, in my opinion.