Using Bloglines to Stay on Top of Mental Health News and Blogs
You may have heard of RSS feeds or news feeds. They’re web formats that allow website and blog publishers to publish content as feeds. This feed in turn can be used by a program called a newsreader (also known as a feedreader or news aggregator). Basically, newsreaders are like having your own clipping service, using websites and blogs that you chose yourself. Instead of you having to browse from site to site to find updated content, your newsreader will query the feeds you’ve chosen periodically, and report back new content, usually with the title of the new entry and a short blurb.
In the past, browsing from site to site on a daily basis was how I kept up with news and articles about depression and mental health. That’s obviously not the most efficient way to stay on top of all the information on the Web, so I was excited when RSS began to really take off.
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:05 pm
I love RSS (Real Simple Syndication.)
It makes it possible to check all the sites an once and it only reports in (or downloads the podcasts,) when there’s something to report.
You can have hundreds of them.