Maybe I’m slow but I never understood the concept of an RSS feed. All I know is that SEO gurus say you must have your feed accessible to the public and display your bright orange feed chicklet for all and sundry to see. An easy way of getting your feed into an easy to remember format is to use Feedburner. Â
Then, you have the feedburner chicklet that lets you see how many people have subscribed to your feed i.e. how many people are reading you. I have it too because I’m vain. Heh…I think its just a way of showing off la.
“Eh look! 24 people find my site interesting enough to read leh.”
“So what? I have 245 readers says my feedburner counter.”
So, its either uplifting to the morale thereby prompting you to keep your creative juices flowing, or its dead demoralising. Fortunately for me, I’m in the former category. I’m absolutely freaking thrilled that people actually bother to subscribe to my feed! Haha…
So, I’m venturing into the world of feed readers by using Google Reader. So exciting. Suddenly, its so easy to read all the blogs I usually have to hop to and I can do it right in one window. So fun! *bubbles over with delight at a new toy*
I’m still adding more sites to my reader. Google Reader is damn slow though. It takes forever to load up. Are there better readers to use? I’m using it primarily because I’m on Google for everything – gmail, blogger (once), Picasa… and Google makes it so easy to use by having one sign in. Sometimes its a pain with Blogger but since I’m not there anymore, I’m not so bugged by it. Looks like I must buy Google stock. hehe…
I’m adding more feeds to my reader as I go along so tell me if I should add yours! 
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I just used the browsers (IE &Firefox), it works fine for me. One click only I can tell your blog got updated today.:-)
PB says: wah how do you work that?! I told you I was dumb about such things…
Well, you’re on my google reader….
PB says: Ooh! Thank you!! And you are on mine too! hehe
I use Bloglines.com as my online RSS reader – it was super easy to set-up and has a relatively fuss-free interface. I signed up for Google Reader using my Google account, but got turned off because it was way too slow to load (my office computer’s a dinosaur, you see).
p.s. All your sites are on my Bloglines reader. Heh!
PB says: Ah I used to play with Bloglines before without knowing what I was doing LOL… but yes Google Reader takes so long I’d have grandkids before it loads anything. And thank you for reading!
Wah! You got my chicken rice review on the feed image! LOL!
I use livefeed from my firefox browser. Very easy…just see the new titles coming in. And this blog of yours is subscribed as well. So, I am one of your stats!
PB says: yes yes! Must plug the nice chicken rice! I don’t use firefox coz I got too lazy to learn up another new thing. Yay for stats!
yes, add me! add me!
PB says: Added you already la if you look at the pic lol…
My Apple Safari’s RSS works pretty well, but sometimes it goes bocor too.. but I have no complains. I still manually call round anyway, just in case someone sneakily updates..
PB says: LOL at bocor. You are learning hehe…
Mark me down as a bloglines guy. But it can be slow if you wanna play the chup game. So I have to set up elaborate regression analysis to play. And the result is no chup points for May at any blog.
Would like to learn more about RSS too.
PB says: So would I. So far google reader seems pretty ok if slow in loading.
I think I’m the most kiasu – Safari RSS at home on Mac, Bloglines and Google Reader at work! and you know what? I don’t even have time to keep up with all of them, LOL!
PB says: LOL!! You got all bases covered! I’m still struggling with Google Reader and seeing if it works. I still like going round though.
What browser do you use?
This is what I do with IE [actually discovered this while clicking around, so have no idea whether it will work for you:-)]
When you click on the orange icon to subscribe to a feed, below all the icons, you see “View Feed XML”, click that, that brings you to the feed of that blog, you just click “subscribe”, it will be in your browser, and the blog will be downloaded and highlighted when updated.
I actually had a hard time finding the “feed” after I have done the above. SO I might as well tell you this: you can find your feed in the explore bar, side by side with “favorite” and “history”.
It works on Firefox in similar way.
Happy feeding!
PB says: Thanks Leah. I think it might be because you are using IE7. I upgraded on another comp but hate it so much (it was very unstable) I refused to upgrade the rest of my IEs.
Please don’t rss me! I need you to come and click on my Ads!!
PB says: HAha… but I don’t click woh…
Use firefox lah! It’s much cooler, I think! After I switched to it, I never looked back.
PB says: That good eh? Shall try then
I have Paris Beaverbanks on my google reader. Sometimes it’s rather slow, but I find it really useful, since I have so many blogs to visit!
But talk to my hubby, he can read blogs and be more updated than me WITHOUT a reader!
PB says: Yay! I have GT on mine too. Gosh your hubby must know which sites to hit at what time!
I just came back from Penang!
And well, I use Bloglines, and never had much problems with them. I recently explored Google Reader and found that there’s no way one can “mark all feeds as read”, but Bloglines does have that. It comes in very handy especially when you’ve just returned from somewhere and don’t feel like reading the whole past week’s news