RSS is a way of being notified when new postings or pages are available on web sites. If you use a good browser, RSS is very easy to use, and it can make your web browsing experience a lot easier and more useful. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way for you to keep updated on changes to the web sites you visit, without having to keep going back to them.
If you use Safari or Firefox, you’ll notice a special icon in the upper right (as I write this) of your browser’s URL bar. In Firefox, it’s an orange broadcast icon, and in Safari it’s a big, blue box that reads “RSS”. In each case, you can click on that icon and receive a list of recently-created and recently-modified pages on Negative Space.
If you “subscribe” to an RSS feed, your browser will let you know when new entries show up. Safari is very good at this, showing you a count of all new entries in your bookmark bar. Firefox creates an RSS menu (a “Live Bookmark”) that lists everything in the feed. In Safari, subscribing to an RSS feed is as easy as bookmarking the RSS list just as you would any other web page.
There are also dedicated RSS readers that you can use to subscribe to RSS feeds, such as Vienna.
While the recent pages feed is advertised on every Negative Space page, more feeds are available on the Negative Space home page. There‘s a hot links page for recent interesting links that I’ve added to the site, a hot quotes page for recent interesting quotes I’ve added to the quote database, a latest news feed for recent site-wide notices, and a tags feed for newly-added keywords.
- Recently Modified Pages on Negative Space
- Updates on Negative Space
- Recent late-night restaurants
- New and updated after midnight restaurants from DiningAfterMidnight.com. San Diego.
- Recently Added Links on Negative Space
- New links for pages on Negative Space
- Recently Added Quotes on Negative Space
- New quotes for pages on Negative Space
- Recent news from Negative Space
- Notes scattered about the Negative Space web site.
- Keyword Pages on Negative Space
- Keyword-filtered page lists for Negative Space
- Recent news from Jerry Stratton, author of 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts
- New books and posts from Jerry Stratton, author of 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh.
Because they are semi-separate parts of the site, The Walkerville Weekly Reader, Mimsy Were the Borogoves, and The Biblyon Broadsheet each have separate RSS feeds. They also have RSS feeds focused on each category in those sites.
- The Biblyon Broadsheet
- Like adventurers of old you will delve into forgotten tombs where creatures of myth stalk the darkness. You will search uncharted wilderness for lost knowledge and hidden treasure. Where the hand-scrawled sign warns “beyond here lie dragons,” your stories begin.
- Mimsy Were the Borogoves
- The official blog of Jerry Stratton.
- The Walkerville Weekly Reader
- In the end times, one newspaper dared to call God to task for His hypocrisy. That newspaper was not us, we swear it. Not the eternal flames!
More Information
- Feed Readers on Open Directory
- The open directory project provides a list of dedicated RSS feed reeder software.
- RSS
- “RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.”
- Vienna
- If you prefer a standalone RSS reader, Vienna is very nice, and free.
- What is RSS? RSS Explained
- “RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter.”
