For those of you using feedreaders and who may have tried adding this blog recently without success, feed functionality has been rejuvenated. Awhile back I thought it wasn’t ‘necessary’ to have feed functionality (even though it’s included and automatic with a Movable Type installation) so I deleted the templates. Now I realize more and more people live by their RSS & XML feeds alone.

For those who have never heard of a feedreader, it is either a light software program or browser-based management system to organize and easily read blogs or websites you are interested in. For example, instead of returning regularly to your bookmarked favorite sites, you could subscribe to several of the sites through a single viewer that displays updated content from all of them at once, without having to actually visiting them. The blogs & sites supply the code files (called RSS, Atom or XML, etc.) that distributes their content to the feedreaders.

Confused yet?

For more info here are two examples of feedreaders: Bloglines (accessed through your internet browser) or Feedreader (software you install).

I registered for Bloglines about a year ago, but haven’t really used it up until now. The more websites you read on a regular basis, the more useful it becomes. One major benefit is you get to bypass all the advertising some sites bombard you with.

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