Just a little geek note, there's now a box that will appear the first time you visit my site (it disappears after the first visit) that will let you subscribe to my feed in your favorite feed reader, or to get posts delivered via email.
If you haven't already done so, or the box went away before you got a chance to subscribe, or you just needed a reminder, here's the links:
And of course, there's the requisite XML Feed link:
Subscribe to this blog's feed (What's an XML Feed?)
Now back to our regularly scheduled idiocy.
What if somebody likes your site the first time, but not enough to subscribe until they've had a chance to tour the archives? It almost seems like you've got the behavior backwards - repeat visitors are more likely to want those links than first-timers.
While you are on the topic of housekeeping, why don't you make this blog as goodlooking as your other one (www.)?
The pink is far too painful.
I hate something about this whole feed business. I see techies falling over themselves trying to use the simplest possible language to help the rest of us understand what feeds really are and how they work. It's like a lot of people dumb down the definitions and try to use terms they think we'll understand and be able to internalize.
Hell no.
Tell me exactly how these things work ... tell me a feed is like an HTML file that has the address/URL of where a site's latest content is posted and that you can specify exactly how you want to see the new content - snippets or full blow-by-blow.
I maybe wrong ... because techies are really muffling the real definitions with their softened, purpotedly easy to understand definitions.
Thanks for posting this. I've heard of RSS before, but it all seemed like black magic until I tried out bloglines. Your post inspired me to get started!
Subscribed :)
You should checkout solosub.com for this. It takes users to a page with all these buttons, and more.