Syndication

It took me some time to get to this, but Cynthia asked what an Atom feed is. Well, Atom feeds (and RSS feeds) have been around for a long time but I'm just finally jumping on the bandwagon. It's a way to syndicate your blog out so that people can have it delivered much like email.

Most of the major blog software, or at least Blogger and LiveJournal for sure, have the option to have your blog published by atom feed, and it's turned on by default. So I subscribe to Cynthia's blog by using a Feed Reader (currently RSS Owl, was using Sharp Reader but for a memory leak) and subscribing to http://cynthiablue.blogspot.com/atom.xml. I also subscribe to Dinah's Having Fun (http://thepatricks.blogspot.com/atom.xml), Adventures of Bad Hamster (http://www.livejournal.com/users/chaospearl/data/rss), Jigsaw Thoughts (http://www.divamind.com/corey/jigsaw/atom.xml), and SHU GIRLZ (http://shugirlz.blogspot.com/atom.xml).

I love it because I can read and comment all in one place and I don't have to remember to go check everyone's blogs for updates.