I have only a few in my RSS folder:
Moose News Blog
Joe McNally's Blog
The Imaging Resource News Page
Earthbound Light Photography Tips
Photoshop Insider
VABIRD list server
What subscriptions do you all have?
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I have only a few in my RSS folder:
Moose News Blog
Joe McNally's Blog
The Imaging Resource News Page
Earthbound Light Photography Tips
Photoshop Insider
VABIRD list server
What subscriptions do you all have?
I dont have any
..................Rocky you don't subscribe to Mad Magazine :D:D:D Anytime I get the question for which magazine you shoot for ..... that is the answer !!!!:cool:
At present I don't have enough time to actually say I read one Have subscribed to most of the photo magazines from time to time.
BIRDS AS ART free On-line Bulletins???
Of course, but last I knew, they don't come by RSS.
Well, you are all one step ahead of me; what is an RSS feed???
Here's a few of my favorites (though I have way too many in my reader):
http://stuckincustoms.com (great HDR photography)
http://flyingwithfish.blogspot.com (photography and travel)
http://www.scottkelby.com/blog (Photoshop and Lightroom stuff)
http://web.mac.com/aaronandpatty/Wha...ic_Strips.html (photography humor)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthur Morris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS for description.
Jim, Smart thread. I don't subscribe to any but may know. Thanks.
Hi Artie!Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthur Morris
Robert Amoruso posted an excellent site with a nice description of RSS. Here is another one:
http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html
You might think about doing RSS feeds for your site and newsletter. Currently, when you make up your news letter, you are doing a mass e-mail to everyone on your (growing) list. This does have an advantage, as you are able to keep your list, and know all your subscribers.
The advantage in creating an RSS feed ... is that with each and every change you make to your web site, or newsletter ... The RSS feed will reach ANYone on the internet who choses to follow what you do, and keep up with all your changes on your site. There is no need for you to e-mail them.
The internet user fires up his/her computer and when the RSS reader comes up, it will notify that person if anything has changed on your site (without them having to constantly go to your site to see if anything is new).
It will not work well on a site like BPN, because the changes are constant. But it might be something useful, and helpful for you to get your messages out. You should think about possibly adding it to your newsletters and website. There are applications on the internet that help write the code to do this for you.
Hope that is helpful!
Pretty useful information here. Artie - you should do a RSS feed on your web site.
Question for Brian: when folks are notified of a change are the notified as to WHAT the change is? If not, it is a big web site and folks would be getting pissed off quickly if say we changed the price of one item...
Thanks!
Hi Artie!Quote:
Originally Posted by Arthur Morris
If you decide to change or add something to your website, you are the one that decide if that change is worth a news feed to everyone on the internet. I have seen it where webmasters (you) can just write up a short caption, headline or summary of what is new or different. That summary is then picked up by the various news readers ... and the audience reading it can then decide if it is worth the mouse click to go and visit your site (link). I would think that your newsletter (as a webpage) would be ideal for something like this.
Your e-mail newsletter is excellent ... but (for example) if you did not write your e-mail ... then the only way for me to follow what you are doing is to remember to go to your website periodically to look around. I get lazy, and often forget after a while, or even lose your URL. It is just another nice way to reach out to more people.
Yes, I agree that you probably don't want to do it just for changing the price of one item, or small changes on a few webpage. It works well on "news-like" items ... say you had a webpage that contained your image-of-the-month ... then I think people would love to be notified in their RSS reader the same day that you decide to post it, and go directly to that webpage to view it.
Just as there are various applications to help you make up a webpage, there are applications that help you write up a RSS feed. I hope this is helpful.
Artie,
Most blog software now publishes in both "human readable" form (i.e., what you normally see when you view a blog) and in RSS form (which is what RSS readers need). For instance, here is the human readable form of my blog:
http://www.oceanlight.com/log/
and the RSS form:
http://www.oceanlight.com/log/feed/rss2/
Not all that different but the RSS version is intended to be read by machines and then communicated to readers in the form of "feeds".
Yup, its a new world with lots of bizarre acronyms. Having your website/blog/whatever available as in RSS form will dramatically increase your readership. We get about 4000+ people a day now, much higher than in the pre-RSS days. Your newsletters are perfect for publishing in RSS form. It would also be perfectly fine for you to continue to distribute it by email and publish it as a RSS feed at the same time, so that you catch readers of both technologies.
Wow, thanks everyone and sorry I haven't stopped by this thread again sooner. Looks like lots of good stuff.
