Managing Blogs?
As the number of blogs grow by the day , one question that was haunting my mind was - how do we keep track of those of our choice?
One option is to list them one by one in a piece of paper and check them everyday to find out on the new postings.But this is laborious.
I came to know recently that there are tools available which would make things easier for us.One such tool is RSS Bandit.What this typically does is this - it converts the publishing into an XML format with number of tags like title,description,link so on and so forth.
Say for eg: You not only want to visit http://greenhorns.blogspot.com but also a couple of other blogspots to check if there are any new publishings on a daily basis, the RSS aggregator would aggregate all the various blogs to which you subscribe.Ofcourse as a first step after one installs this tool, one has to add the subscription list into the RSS Bandit with the New Feed Option.It's the aggregator which will read the not-so understandable markup(this is with respect to our eyes) coz the computer still understands this language and will notify the user saying that a new publishing is available that has not yet been read.
For more information about RSS, please see the following URL: http://www.mnot.net/RSS/tutorial/.
RSS Bandit is a freeware and you can download it from the net provided you have the .NET framework already installed. Also RSS Bandit is an ongoing open source project and for all those geeks who are interested in .NET and would like to code in C# can play with the code that is available.
One option is to list them one by one in a piece of paper and check them everyday to find out on the new postings.But this is laborious.
I came to know recently that there are tools available which would make things easier for us.One such tool is RSS Bandit.What this typically does is this - it converts the publishing into an XML format with number of tags like title,description,link so on and so forth.
Say for eg: You not only want to visit http://greenhorns.blogspot.com but also a couple of other blogspots to check if there are any new publishings on a daily basis, the RSS aggregator would aggregate all the various blogs to which you subscribe.Ofcourse as a first step after one installs this tool, one has to add the subscription list into the RSS Bandit with the New Feed Option.It's the aggregator which will read the not-so understandable markup(this is with respect to our eyes) coz the computer still understands this language and will notify the user saying that a new publishing is available that has not yet been read.
For more information about RSS, please see the following URL: http://www.mnot.net/RSS/tutorial/.
RSS Bandit is a freeware and you can download it from the net provided you have the .NET framework already installed. Also RSS Bandit is an ongoing open source project and for all those geeks who are interested in .NET and would like to code in C# can play with the code that is available.
3 Comments:
rss bandit is cool! i work with the guy who wrote the original source.
Welcome Raji, to the world of RSS. There is more than RSS in the web, ckeckout atom. (FYI you blog already has an atom feed at http://greenhorns.blogspot.com/atom.xml and I read yours through that.)
RSS bandit is good, but I like Bloglines better. It is an online tool (means you don't have to install anything and can track your favourite blogs from anywhere). Also try out Feedreader and Sharp reader (I use sharp reader). But lately i have started using my thunderbird to read blogs, you'll get blog updates as mails :-).
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