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RSS Awareness Day
Today, Daily Basketball takes a break from the NBA playoffs and awards for a brief public service announcement.
May 1 (that’s today) is RSS Awareness Day. For any of our readers who aren’t familiar with RSS, here’s an explanation from official RSS Awareness Day headquarters:
The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content.
In other words, it compiles posts from your favorite blogs into one convenient place.
Why Should an NBA Fan Check RSS Feeds?
RSS feeds cut down on the time “wandering around” for interesting sports stories. There’s no need to try remembering every cool site you come across. Bookmarks are helpful, but some blogs aren’t updated very often. Instead of checking web sites every day or two, RSS feeds update automatically as soon as a new post is up.
Why Should Sports Bloggers Promote Their RSS feeds?
The Sports Dollar considers considers reading blogs daily an important part of successful sports blogging (see fluff #10). RSS feeds are amazingly efficient for this. While you miss out on the discussion in the comments, you can quickly all of the news in sports over just a few minutes of time.
Not only are RSS feeds important for catching up on the blogosphere, but they are just as important for promoting blogs. You spend a good deal of time working on an exceptional blog post. Don’t you want to make sure your readers see it? With RSS feeds, they are notified the moment it’s published.
How Do I Get Started?
RSS Awareness Day has a basic tutorial.
In addition, here’s a very basic rundown:
- Choose an RSS feed reader. Popular choices are Google Reader and BlogLines. It’s quick and easy to create an account.
- Find the RSS subscription link, and subscribe. Many blogs link to their RSS with a button or link in the menu, or at the bottom of their blog, and sometimes even in posts. If you use Firefox as your web browser, you probably will see the RSS icon on the far right edge of the address bar (go ahead, check there now!).
- Begin reading!
A List of Top Sports RSS Feeds
Here’s a list of RSS feeds ought to consider subscribing to, starting of course, with our own.
- Daily Basketball
- Ball Don’t Lie
- Blog Maverick
- Detroit Bad Boys
- Empty the Bench
- Free Darko
- Hardwood Paroxysm
- le basketbawl
- Need4Sheed
- Odenized
- Utah Jazz Blog
Have a favorite RSS feed you would like to add to our list? Leave a comment below.
