Do you get up every morning and go to your phone or tablet to read the latest news and information? If so, do you have those favorite one, two or 20+ sites you visit to get the latest news? There is an easier way to do this without visiting each site individually which you should try. I have mentioned RSS feeds in Double Clicks once or twice before in 2013; however, things are always changing. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” There is a site that has been around for a while and it has improved RSS feeds with age. As a matter of fact you do not have to know much about RSS any longer to benefit from them.
That site is Feedly (feedly.com). I have been using it for years and it is very convenient for keeping up with the news in which I am interested. First when you visit the site you need to create a Feedly account with an email address or associate either your: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Evernote or an Enterprise (your company must sign up) information to login. I have been using my Google account association for years with no adverse effects.
Once you are logged in we know you read the Daily News Record so in the, “What source do you want to follow?” box, type in, “http://dnronline.com,” then wait for a few seconds and look below where you typed. You will see (currently) two links. Notice under the dark titles you will see, “13 followers / 1503 articles per week.” Since this link is more active you should probably choose that one. I would not worry about the number of followers stated as it is not very accurate. Once it is added to your collection you will have each article posted on the DNR site sent to your Feedly page and can read a portion of the articles there or click the link to go to the DNR site.
Try a large news site (http://foxnews.com or http://cnn.com) and you will see many different feeds arranged by titles/topics. Click the “Follow” button to the right site of the ones you are interested in and read the new posts anytime you wish.
If you click on the RSS feed links on a site you will see gibberish, below.
Once you click to read an article it will gray out that post to mark it read. You may also click the small checkmark to the right of the article to mark it read. The next time you load Feedly previously viewed posts will be gone to make room for all the new articles. You can click a link to save them to read later and they will remain.
You may see a RSS link on any website and if it interests you click that link, copy the URL after it loads and add that to Feedly. As that page updates you will get the new info. Some people like to read Google News. If you are one of them you can add their news posts to Feedly also. For example, go to the news section in Google for “Technology,” scroll to the bottom of the page and click the RSS link. Now copy that URL in your browser’s address bar and add it as a new feed to Feedly. You will now start getting immediate updates to that news feed.
There are many other options for Feedly so test them out when you can. None of them will permanently destroy anything so click at will without fear.
