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diff --git a/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md b/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md index f7cfb04..a652a6a 100644 --- a/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md +++ b/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags: ['computing'] draft: false --- Most netizens are vaguely familiar with this symbol: -[RSS icon [IMG]](/feed-icon-28x28.png) +[RSS icon [IMG]](/static/feed-icon-28x28.png) It represents [Atom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29) and [RSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS). From Wikipedia ([CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)): ## RSS @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ I'm not inherently against social media. I'm just against proprietary walled gar Now that you know what Atom/RSS is and you have an idea what it's used for, I'll move on to the meat of this post: how to use Atom/RSS. To begin using Atom/RSS yourself, you'll need to install a feed reader. There is mature feed reader software available for all major platforms including mobile. Decent feed readers support both Atom and RSS and you probably won't need to know which is which. Most sites including this one still use RSS. I do plan to eventually switch [my site feed](/atom.xml) over to Atom since it's more modern. Once you find the feed symbol -[RSS icon [IMG]](/feed-icon-28x28.png) +[RSS icon [IMG]](/static/feed-icon-28x28.png) on the webpage with the feed you want, just copy paste the link adding it into your feed reader and you're golden. After that your reader will take care of retrieving the content from that feed automatically. If you can't find a feed icon on a site, that doesn't mean the site doesn't support RSS. They may just not advertise it. Search the web for that site's RSS feed to see if anything turns up. If nothing turns up, there are websites that will parse the page you want turning it into a web feed. As long as you're not required to log in to view the content, you can probably find an RSS feed for it. Decent Atom/RSS aggregators allow you to create groups of feeds, so you can combine related feeds or view them separately. You can even aggregate all your feeds into 1 big feed if that's what you want. With Atom/RSS, the choice is yours. If you stop reading a feed, it's as easy to remove from your aggregator as it was to add. Sites with lots of content offer Atom/RSS feeds based on category. For example if you're only interested in my posts about "computing", you can subscribe only to this RSS feed. |