{"id":332,"date":"2007-07-21T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T02:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/21\/efficiency-tip-88-use-rss\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:27","slug":"efficiency-tip-88-use-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/21\/efficiency-tip-88-use-rss\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #88 – Use RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I talked about using del.icio.us for bookmarks.\u00a0 I talked about a “start page<\/a>” a few months ago.\u00a0\u00a0The start page is\u00a0one extra step you can take to improve not just your bookmarks, but almost everything you do on the Internet.\u00a0 Create a “start page” with items you look at often.\u00a0 I use Protopage.\u00a0 Here is a Protopage I made just for this post.\u00a0 It took five minutes to create and setup.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.protopage.com\/trustyblog<\/a><\/p>\n

There are three main parts to this page.<\/p>\n

1 – News
\n2 – Pictures
\n3 – Links<\/p>\n

The first two items are driven by what is called RSS<\/a>.\u00a0 These are “feeds” from other sites that are dynamically created just for me.\u00a0 Protopage acts as a news agent for me.\u00a0 When I subscribed to “Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog”, I\u00a0told Protopage’s RSS component to continually monitor\u00a0that specific site on the Internet and report back any new stories.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to use Protopage for your RSS subscriptions.\u00a0 RSS is built into Internet Explorer and Firefox.\u00a0 You can also setup a (free) Google Reader<\/a> account.<\/p>\n

The beauty of RSS is that I can subscribe to many different sites – news, pictures, comics,\u00a0del.icio.us bookmarks\u00a0– and have all that\u00a0information come to me on one page.\u00a0 I can glance at my one page and see if there are any new stores without visiting all those different web sites.\u00a0 Did you catch that reference to del.icio.us?\u00a0 If I know your del.icio.us username, I can subscribe to your bookmarks.\u00a0 Any time you add a new bookmark, my RSS reader tells me.<\/p>\n

Check out the Dilbert comic on the Protopage.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.protopage.com\/trustyblog<\/a><\/p>\n

Today it is today’s comic strip.\u00a0 Tomorrow it will be tomorrow’s strip.\u00a0 Next Thursday it will be next Thursday’s strip.\u00a0 All this happens automatically using RSS.<\/p>\n

I subscribe to about fifty different feeds.\u00a0 I can easily scroll through all those multiple times every day.\u00a0 If I had fifty bookmarks and had to visit the sites interactively, it would take hours to go through all fifty just once.\u00a0 I would have to sift through advertisement banners and other distractions.\u00a0 Often I would click\u00a0a link to find out nothing new is posted on the site.\u00a0 RSS is one of the biggest time savers on the Internet.\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I talked about using del.icio.us for bookmarks.\u00a0 I talked about a “start page” a few months ago.\u00a0\u00a0The start page is\u00a0one extra step you can take to improve not just your bookmarks, but almost everything you do on the Internet.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}