Free! Of course it is. Subscribing to the RSS/ATOM feed of Geekie.org will always be free.
If you are viewing this message in your RSS/ATOM reader, you can disregard this message completely. If you’re a user of our site who does NOT use an RSS client to subscribe to our feed, read on!
RSS/ATOM are standards for creating portable XML files which contain — essentially — links to pages on sites. Extended to the context of blogs like Geekie.org, RSS/ATOM are easy ways of providing posts (or excerpts of posts) in plain text, to be read in a format comfortable to the user.
Why might you use our feed instead of our site? (We don’t mind if you use either one, but we encourage both.)
- You might not like our site design, or you might find it difficult to load our site on a slower Internet connection.
- You want to be able to access new posts or be notified of new posts without receiving our newsletters
- Tip: webmail clients like Gmail, Geekie.org Apps Webmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, and AOL Mail are all capable RSS clients
- You want to read the highlighted posts of various blogs in one place
- You are using a mobile device
Typically, “subscribing” to an RSS/ATOM feed is a free process that usually requires a browser, a service on the Internet OR a software client.
- Find the URL of the feed you want to subscribe to.
- Go to the URL of the feed in your browser -OR- enter it into your software client
- If you’re using our site, just click on the top orange feed icon (illustrated below) or use the button below our site search
- Use the links or menus available on the feed page to subscribe.
- For our feed, simply choose from the variety of buttons offered. (NOTE: the HTML page does not always show.)
This process isn’t very specific. However, hopefully you’ll show how much you appreciate Geekie.org by subscribing to our feed!
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There are a number of syndication formats that can be used for “feeds” on blogs like Geekie.org. WordPress 2.3 natively supports RSS 0.92, RSS 1, RSS 2.0, and ATOM 1.0.
Geekie.org now favours ATOM as the default syndication format, and I’ve changed the links throughout the site in order to reference the ATOM feed as opposed to the RSS feed. You can find the current ATOM feed using the button on the right side of your location bar, the icon next to the site title, or the icon next to the “Functions” panel in the right sidebar.
Why? There isn’t much to it, but certainly ATOM is a newer and more advanced format. Thus, we prefer ATOM.
Do you have a blog? Switch to ATOM if you can. Google likes it. (That’s not the only reason.) Read this Wikipedia article on ATOM.
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