This is part of a series of articles on how homeschoolers can Utilize the Internet.

Do you try to keep up with more than one blog? I do. I enjoy several blogs but I don’t have the time to jump around to all of them. So I use an RSS reader.

RSS is Rich Site Summary. Most news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

Each day, I open my RSS reader and browse dozens of blogs by category: Bible Studies, Homeschooling, Hebrew Roots, Writing, Homemaking, Organization, etc., then choose the articles I want to read. It’s great!

While planning on how to explain how RSS works, I found this great little video that explains it really well. Watch the video then read below.

RSS in Plain English - Video

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Feed readers are intended to make it easier for users to gather and sift through large amounts of information. I love my RSS feeder. It has made my life much easier. I no longer need to jump from site to site for most of my daily reads and research. Everything comes to me. And I don’t have to give my name. I can subscribe anonymously.

Subscribe to this blog in a reader
Or click to see what a feed looks like

This is an image of the Blog Bridge reader I use. The categories are on the left and articles on the right.

What a Feed Looks Like

As explained in the video:

1. You need a feed reader or feed aggregator to read the feeds (a bunch of articles on a topic). See list of readers below.
2. Go to your favorite blogs and/or news sites and subscribe to RSS feeds.

List of Free RSS Feed Readers

• Blog Bridge - Free
• Google Reader - Free
• Bloglines - Free
• RSS Bandit - Free
• Squeet - Free
• intraVnews - Free
• SharpReader - Free
• Mozilla Thunderbird - Free
• BlogExpress - Free

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