Comments on: Teaching Dad about RSS http://www.davethenerd.com/davehamilton/blogging/2005/05/28/rss-for-my-dad/ ...because that's who I am. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: darla http://www.davethenerd.com/davehamilton/blogging/2005/05/28/rss-for-my-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-4 darla Sun, 29 May 2005 01:56:51 +0000 http://www.davethenerd.com/davehamilton/blogging/2005/05/28/rss-for-my-dad/#comment-4 I'm with David. You can shoot him over the <a href="http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2005/04/15.1.shtml" rel="nofollow">article I wrote for TMO</a> covering Bloglines and how to get started with it. Bloglines is great because it comes with "starter" feeds, as well as making it pretty user-friendly to get started. There's also the fantastic <a href="http://timyang.com/comments.php?id=630_0_1_0_C" rel="nofollow">Tim Yang authored</a> piece on 15 things you can do with RSS> <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/firefox" rel="nofollow">Firefox</a> has great RSS support (more like live bookmarks than anything) and in my article I briefly go into how to integrate FF with Bloglines. In a nutshell, I'd avoid giving him a stand-alone application for RSS feeds. It makes it seem much more cumbersome. "Oh, I need a whole application to do it for me?" instead of "Oh I just go to this website!" Easy peasy, Japanesey. I’m with David. You can shoot him over the article I wrote for TMO covering Bloglines and how to get started with it. Bloglines is great because it comes with “starter” feeds, as well as making it pretty user-friendly to get started. There’s also the fantastic Tim Yang authored piece on 15 things you can do with RSS>

Firefox has great RSS support (more like live bookmarks than anything) and in my article I briefly go into how to integrate FF with Bloglines.

In a nutshell, I’d avoid giving him a stand-alone application for RSS feeds. It makes it seem much more cumbersome. “Oh, I need a whole application to do it for me?” instead of “Oh I just go to this website!”

Easy peasy, Japanesey.

]]> By: david http://www.davethenerd.com/davehamilton/blogging/2005/05/28/rss-for-my-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-3 david Sat, 28 May 2005 16:02:04 +0000 http://www.davethenerd.com/davehamilton/blogging/2005/05/28/rss-for-my-dad/#comment-3 Set him up with a web-based aggregator like Bloglines. It's the easiest, and least painful way, to introduce RSS to the 'rents. Set him up with a web-based aggregator like Bloglines. It’s the easiest, and least painful way, to introduce RSS to the ‘rents.

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