Very cool video

What is this and why the hell do I see it all the Time?

RSS FEEDS

What they are and how to use them.

You may have seen this icon on your favorite webpages and, unaware of its function, scrolled right past it.  But if you take just two minutes to read this post, you will save countless hours (even days) that would be otherwise spent wasting time online.  

• The is symbol denotes a link to a websites RSS page.
• An RSS feed, when saved into an RSS reader, sends information to you instead of you searching for the information.
• Here it is explained in plain english:

SORRY, SOME IF THE VIDEO IS CUT OFF ON THE RIGHT SIDE, I'M NOT REALLY SURE HOW TO FIX THIS, yet.

• As a fan of anything google, I highly recommend using google reader. GR can also be linked with your gmail account and blogger account, among other things.
• So for now on, when you sign onto the internet, just check your google reader page instead of the countless other pages you would visit. 

So try it out, copy my blogs URL and then go to your google reader homepage, click on add subscription in the upper left hand corner, click save, and now you have your first RSS feed.

1st Post

So I have sunken myself deeper into the internet... I've started a blog. My first post will be relatively short. It will be interesting to see how long this whole thing lasts. I'm not exactly sure why I have started this blog, and if the title hasn't said it clearly enough, this blog is basically a lot of nothing. This is simply a virtual clipboard in where I will post and discuss things I find interesting from various sources, and I invite you to do the same in the comments section.

To start off, I was not particularly fond of blogs until recently. However, I have come to realize that blogs are an invaluable source of information for the things that interest me. Sort of like a party for newspaper editorial columnists, but everyone's invited. And isn't that the whole point of the internet, to share information quickly and conveniently?

Here are some of the blogs I frequent:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/ Buildings!
http://matadornetwork.com/ For the traveler
http://pruned.blogspot.com/ Landscape architecture.
3 lil bi*ches. Blogger won't let me post a link with a vulgar URL, but visit 3lilbi*ches.blogspot of you're interested but replace the * with a "t." A cool blog started by 3 high school friends of mine.
http://www.woostercollective.com/ Street Art: New Art
http://mbcon.blogspot.com/
http://fitnessblackbook.com/
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/ Hunting cool things
http://www.lataco.com/
http://beatlesnumber9.com/
L.A.

... to name a few.

I will let one of my favorite fictional characters, Hank Moody, rant about blogs. I share some of his grievances:
(please excuse the subtitles)




In a later blog, I will show you how to stay up-to-date with your favorite blogs, newscasts, sports scores, and other internet information in fast and reliable way by utilizing RSS feeds.

This concludes my first ever blog post.