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3 Responses to “Just a moment of your time, please sir…” 

1. 1 Lynsey  Apr 20th, 2005 at 9:01 am

   What’s a feed??

2. 2 Lil  Apr 20th, 2005 at 9:24 am

   Yay for iTunes! =D It hasn’t been appearing on my bank statements enough recently (cos of Easter), I must go on a downloading spree =’)

   I started off using feeds (in LJ) for Tom’s and your blogs, but they just annoyed me - I end up going to your sites anyway

3. 3 Andrew  Apr 20th, 2005 at 10:50 am

   A feed is basically a way of finding out about the latest updates to any website. For example the BBC website’s ‘feed’ is a small file which is basically a list of all news articles, and is updated whenever a new item is added. A ‘feed reader’ periodically looks at the BBC’s feed and shows me what’s new. Almost all blogs automatically have feeds built into them, and it’s quickly becoming a popular way of browsing the net. The XML logo in the top right generally indicates that a site has a feed.

   If you only check a couple of sites then there’s not much point, but when you’re like me and check over 80 different websites daily feeds come in very handy. Some feeds, like mine, contain the entire article content. Others, like the BBC’s, just have the headline so you have to go to the site to read it. You can find out all about the bbc’s feeds here:

   http://tinyurl.com/4dyuf

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