Moritz Life

In a couple of months it will be two years since we initiated our blog-based website, allowing our family and friends to keep in contact with us through our regular postings of personal news, updates and ramblings. We are impressed with the number of people that track us through this means.

 

Blogs are no longer a fad for technology "geeks", but are entering the mainstream of the Internet. Not only do they provide a simple format for recording and reading postings, they have one other advantage: feed subscriptions. With the information overload on the Internet, it is becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to keep up with the things you are interested in.

 

The advent of RSS and XML feeds save you time and energy by automatically retrieving the things you are interested in (i.e. blogs, news, weather, sports, etc.) and bringing them to you in one central location, instead of having to manually visit each of your favorite web sites on a daily basis looking for something new.

 

If you are not using a feed reader, you are missing out on one of the most powerful aspects of the Internet. With our blog, for example, you will no longer have to check our website hoping to find something new. Your feed reader will do the work for you and notify you when there is a new post.

 

In the past I have given suggestions as to which feed readers to consider. Here is my latest list:

 

Web-Based Feed Readers - While you can still install a separate feed reader program on your computer, today that is unneccessary because of advances in feed readers that you can use that reside on the Internet. The ones we recommend are: Google Reader, Newsgator and Bloglines. Find the one that works best for you.

 

Portal-Based Feed Readers - These are also web-based, but have the advantage of being part of larger information portals. In my opinion, the best one is Netvibes, but Windows Live, Google Personalized Home, and PageFlakes are good too. MyYahoo and MSN are also possbilities, but lack features.

 

Browser-based - If you are using the latest Internet browsers (Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2.0) you may choose to just use the built-in features in these browsers for subscribing to and reading feeds. (Although with Firefox you may want to add the Sage extension).

 

If all this sounds too complicated or technical, please contact us as one of us would be more than pleased to help you find the right feed reader that will benefit you.