Simple introduction to RSS feeds
by Andrew Smith on 07/09/07 at 3:29 pm
1 comment
Ideate is a blog. That might sound obvious to some people, but many people reading this page might not know the difference between a blog and any other type of website. Perhaps you’ve found something interesting on the Ideate home page in the past, so now you come back every now to check if there’s anything new. The difference between a blog and a non-blog is that most blogs are set up to let the new stuff come to you, through a news reader. Here is a (slightly corny) intro video:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU[/youtube]
I personally don’t use a site like Google Reader because there is a news reader built into my Web Browser Flock, but either one will work fine.
The great thing about being a small business owner in South Africa in the 21st century is that you can read about the experiences of similar businesses to your’s all over the world, as it happens. You can keep up to date with industry trends without paying a fortune for imported international magazines. To find new blogs, use the Google Blog Search, browse some new blogs, and if you like what you see click on the little orange icon to add it to your news reader. After that, the news comes to you!
Andrew Smith is the pedantic systems guy behind Live Alchemy, a SA e-commerce company. Andrew writes for Ideate in an attempt to make the world a more efficient place. View more articles by Andrew Smith.
Liza
Sep 8th, 2007
Blogs yay love blogs. Don’t have one but I stalk them…
What I find interesting about blog development is that in SA we
for the biggest part of it,farjumped right across the personal blogs phase.
A fairly new concept in SA, blogs just hit the ground running here skipping quickly to moblogging, blogging for purpose (business,education or whatever) and utilising blogs as a platform for other social software applications other than just being isolated.
When someone first mentioned the wonders of Facebook I commented that it would swallow the diary-blogs. I kept an eye on personal blogs of those I know since they went Facebook. And they are not posting anymore.
It’s not bad thing as we are left with more purpose blogs, thus less virtual diarrhea and more content.
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