At 02:34 PM Thursday 10/25/2007, William Morris wrote:
>On 10/25/07, Eric Samuelsen <eric_samuelsen@???> wrote:
>
> > Those who would like to be notified of new posts, reviews,
> > announcements, and discussions can select either the "Watch Forum" link
> > (which sends emails to you) or the "RSS Feed" link, or both.
>
>
>For those List members who are curious about using RSS Feeds to manage
>the AML Discussion Board (as well as some of the LDS blogs you may
>visit -- http://www.ldsblogs.org -- and whichever news sources you
>like), here's some info on RSS:
>
>An RSS /XML feed is like having your own newswire that readers can
>sign up for. It delivers headlines (and either the full story or the
>first few lines -- some feeds offer full content, others don't) to
>anyone who has signed up for the feed -- like having the AP wire on
>your computer.
>
>What you need to do in order to get the feeds sign up for some sort of
>RSS reader/aggregator and then use your reader to subscribe to the
>feeds you want. Your individual reader will tell you what you need to
>do, but in both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox, you will see a little
>square orange icon show up in the browser (usually in the vicinity of
>the URL bar) when you are on a page that publishes an RSS feed. Click
>on that. Or find on the page where it says RSS feed. In the AML forum,
>click on the text that says "RSS feed" in the lower right hand corner
>of the board categories you are interested in.
>
>Here are a few RSS reader choices:
>
>Google reader: http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html
>
>Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/
>
>MyYahoo: http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/index_guest.html?.src=my&.page=&.done=
>
>NewsGator (for use with MS Outlook): http://www.newsgator.com/
>
>Firefox Live Bookmarks:
>http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html
>
>Sage (also for use with Firefox -- good option for those who don't
>want to sign up for a Yahoo! or Gmail account):
>http://sage.mozdev.org/
>
>There are both Web-based (i.e. for use in a Web brower such as
>Internet Explorer or Firefox) and desk-top based readers. Many are
>free; some of the desk-top clients cost money (and come with
>additional features). This Slate article is old, but it's still a good
>intro: http://slate.msn.com/id/2096660/
>
>And if you are looking for a huge list, see:
>http://www.download.com/RSS-Tools/3150-9227-0.html
>
>I, personally, do not use Google reader, but instead put all my feeds
>on my iGoogle (personalized) home page since I'm a Gmail user. If you
>use Gmail and would like info on how to do that, feel free to e-mail
>me.
>
>Regards,
>William Morris
>
>P.S. While you're at it, you might want to add the A Motley Vision RSS feed:
>
>http://www.motleyvision.org/wp-rss2.php
Okay, for the benefit of all the old-timers who understood no more of
the above than they have similar explanations in the past, how about
someone providing a *** very basic*** explanation of how to get the
new AML discussions automatically delivered like the current list is
with minimal changes, without having to sign up for anything new or
change browsers or e-mail programs or anything else,
etc.? Preferably in time to get things working and debugged before
the old list goes away Saturday if further help is needed? TIA.
-- Ronn! :)
