Comments for Subscribe! (A little housekeeping)

Subscribe! (A little housekeeping)

2006-07-12T10:33:30Z

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.

Comment from Jemaleddin on 2006-07-12

2006-07-12T17:53:01Z

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.

Comment from AbC on 2006-07-13

2006-07-13T08:24:25Z

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.

Comment from AbC on 2006-07-15

2006-07-15T07:31:42Z

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.

Comment from Joanne on 2006-07-16

2006-07-16T22:13:33Z

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!

Comment from Ross Hill - Thrive Web Marketing on 2006-07-17

2006-07-17T07:22:36Z

Subscribed :)

Comment from Pete Freitag on 2006-08-18

2006-08-18T16:47:57Z

You should checkout solosub.com for this. It takes users to a page with all these buttons, and more.