Handy tip: did you know you can subscribe to blogs?
February 8, 2008 Blogs, Geek stuffThanks to the wonders of acronyms, you can use something called ‘RSS’ to subscribe to a ‘feed’ from a blog and be notified when new posts are added. It’s much easier than remembering to check back for new posts, and you can often read the posts directly in your RSS application. It makes reading your favourite blogs as easy as reading email.
I use a website called bloglines so I can see my subscriptions from anywhere in the world, but you can also use software installed on your computer. If you use Gmail, MSN or Yahoo! for your email, you can add RSS feeds to your homepage on each site.
A bit confusing? This BBC article, News feeds from the BBC, explains what RSS feeds are and how you can get started.
Once you’ve got the hang of that, you could subscribe to our Events feed to find out when new events are added; or to some of our Flickr profiles, so you could see new photos as they’re uploaded.
If you prefer a direct link, try: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MuseumOfLondon
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MuseumofLondon/RomanGlass
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=14132510@N04?=en-us&format=atom
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