Do you Feed me?

I have been thinking about changing the RSS icon. I have some ideas but I am a little bit lazy to put them into practice, though I have checked is something very important, or perhaps essential to get loyal readers. So here I am down on my knees and begging:

Subscribe my Feed!!

A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.

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There are lots of applications to manage the feeds you are subscribed to. Just imagine you reading your preferred articles, without wasting time surfing from one to other site to know if there are new post, focusing on content, without ads …

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At this moment I am trying RSSOwl. It’s very easy to use, only extract it to the folder you want and open it. It’s open source RDF and RSS news reader written in Java. It offers you a lot of feed by default but you can delete those you aren’t interested in. You have some videos at the RSSOwl Homepage to learn how to use it. You can organize each post by deleting, labeling or saving it to read it later. It consumes few memory.

Download for: Windows | Linux | Linux 64Bit | Mac

If you can’t or don’t want to run this kind of software you always can use an online webapp as Google Reader RSS, Bloglines, MyFeedz, Delicious, Netvibes , …

At this moment, the stats of Roxita Design Magazine feed readers is the following:

	Item	Count	Percent		Date
	Google Reader RSS	230	32%		November 11, 2008 7:40 pm
	RSSOwl	173	24%		November 11, 2008 7:26 pm
	Netvibes	149	21%		November 11, 2008 7:52 pm
	Bloglines 3.1	77	11%		November 11, 2008 6:17 pm
	Feedreader	62	9%		November 7, 2008 3:40 pm
	Vienna	2	0%		November 11, 2008 4:54 pm

Finally, you can also use your explorer to follow feeds. At least Opera, Firefox and IE7 can save feeds and show you news updated. Also, some emails clients as Microsoft Outlook include a rss aggregator.

And the link feed? When you see at any web this symbol: you will know that you can subscribe to its feed, click on that image to know the link, add it to the rss reader you have chosen and that’s all.