Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Subscribe to my RSS Feed!

Are you interested in keeping up to date on tax issues? Do you enjoy reading the entries I post daily on my blog? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions then why not consider subscribing to my RSS feed. Instead of having to manually check my blog each day, you can have the entries automatically fed into your favorite RSS reader. With bloggers easy to use RSS feed, you can add my feed to your iGoogle home page or pretty much any feed reader of your choice.

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Fore those of you unfamiliar with RSS, check out the following definition form Wikipedia.

RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URI – often referred to informally as a "URL" (uniform resource locator), although technically the two terms are not exactly synonymous – or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.