As you probably have seen, this forum now has an RSS feed. It's easy to use -- just point your favorite RSS feed reader to:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/CopywritersBoard

If you don't have one, visit the link above to find out about FeedDemon. I use it with my Outlook 2003 with a software called You Subscribe at http://yousoftware.com/ and my multi-instant-messenger program (whcih uses ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, IRC and Jabber, as well as RSS feeds as a plugin) called Trillian at http://ceruleanstudios.com/

It all sounds pretty complicated to me! Do you really think RSS will ever permeate the mainstream? If it's that complicated, then I doubt that it will.

Jane

Hey Jane...I'm the biggest technophobe ever (Michel can confirm) and I have that stuff figured out. It's actually not very complicated at all.

You just download the software and then add the feeds you want.

RSS used to stand for Rich Site Summary. Now it's commonly known as Really Simple Syndication. It's basically a way to syndicate content on a website to another -- or other process, such as a newsreader, a software program, or even hardware like PDAs (e.g., palm pilots) and cellphones.

Based on the XML protocol (a customizable HTML code), RSS allows websites or software to pull content (often summaries) from others.

This means you can keep up with the latest news from a website offering RSS. You can now receive updates about newly added content (or in the case of this board, posts), including news, articles, and featured content pages. Right to your computer!

The reason why RSS is becoming so popular is mostly due to the plague of spam, which is forcing so many people to never receive emails because of overly aggressive spam filters. More important, it gives people the ultimate flexibility to retrieve content as they wish, without having to subscribe to email or wade through a mass of content and deleting unendingly.

To view our RSS feeds, you'll need an RSS Reader such as:

http://www.newsgator.com
http://www.awasu.com
http://www.yole.ru/projects/syndirella/

Some of you wanted to be notified by email of new posts, while others didn't. I wanted to give YOU the opportunity not only to subscribe or not (rather than subscribing everyone by default), but also give you full control over how you want to be notified.

Enter FeedBlitz.

FeedBlitz is an awesome service that allows you to subscribe to this board by email, and control how and how often you want to be notified. Simply click on the bottom of the post where it says "Subscribe By Email" (or see "Subscribe" at the top, below the header), or click here:

http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=72985

Once you subscribed, you can login to FeedBlitz and change your settings.

Let me know what you think!