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What about those news feeds?

Here’s the sane thing…

You decide you want to see what people have written for you. You open your email program, wait for the messages to load and seconds later you’re scanning a list of subject lines.

“Re: home insurance” — you just know that has to be spam because you never wrote an email about that, so how can you get a reply?

“Photos of the wedding” catches your attention but before you have time to click on it you see “Kimmy survives 3 story fall” and decide to read that.

Family, friends, co-workers and, yes, some strangers; it’s all there in one place — your email program.

Now picture this

Imagine that in order to check if there is new email from the people you want to read email from, you would have to open your browser and visit a page on the web for every single person.

That would be insane!

And yet we do so every day to check if there are new, interesting stories on our favorite web sites.

There has got to be a better way!

There is — and it’s completely free.

Call them feeds, call it RSS, call it “ those little orange buttons” but no matter how you call them, RSS has changed the way we can stay current with our favorite sites.

RSS is like email from your favorite web sites, from sites you choose, and looks something like this:

Or maybe you prefer just a list of headlines:

As you see, scanning new content is as easy as scanning your email — if not easier.

Your Convenience: Priceless and Free

Yes, of course you can splurge and spend money on convenience, in which case Good News Blog recommends FeedDemon, but you don’t need to spend any money.

Free convenience is yours in two simple steps — no software to install:

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