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Subscribing in a Nutshell

When you subscribe to a blog you are signing up to be notified when new articles are published. To subscribe you must have either a news aggregator program on your computer or have an account with a web service aggregator which you access via your browser. The program or service accepts the notifications and a small portion of the newly published articles. This allows you to keep up to date on what I am writing without having to visit the site to see if there is something new. They are called aggregators because they combine feeds (notices of new articles) from any number of blogs or other news sources (such as ABC News, The BBC, USA Today and others) and present them to you in an organized fashion.

If you want more information about the mechanism that allows all this to happen, read the Wikipedia article RSS.

There are a number of news aggregator programs from which you can choose if you want to use a program that resides on your computer. Some are free and some are not. There are also a number of news aggregator web sites on which you may open an account. Go to RSS Compendium for an extensive list with a brief description of each. It is categorized by computer type.

Or you can just jump in and use one of the following to get your feet wet. At your leisure you can explore other programs and services and switch if you find one you like better.

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