To read my blog regularly you don't have to keep coming back to this website - my blog can come to you!

That's because my blog can be delivered to your computer as an RSS (really simple syndication) feed - allowing your computer to bring you new blog posts as soon as I make them. All you need is to subscibe to this feed in a feed reader, and sit back and enjoy!

Practical RSS Video

Feed Readers

Feed Readers (also known as newsreaders, aggregators or RSS readers) are pieces of software, or websites, that aggregate all the blogs you are interested in reading in one place.

I use and recommend FeedDemon.
But Google also offers Google Reader which is an online service so you don't have to download or install any software. There are similar services from Yahoo!, and Newsgator. All of these are free.
You can also see this Google search for RSS readers to get some more ideas.

Subscribing to Feeds

To subscribe to my blog feed you can either:

  • Click the big orange feed logo in the right hand bar. That will take you to a page where you will see options of how to subscribe.
  • Copy and paste this web URL into your feedreader: http://www.steveparks.co.uk/feed.

Once you've set up the feed you don't need to do anything else, you'll just receive any new posts to this blog automagically.

Subscribe by email

You can also subscribe to my blog by email. Simply type your email address into the box on the right hand side of this page and click 'Subscribe'. This will then get you to verify your email address (to prevent naughty people entering other people's email addresses!).
After that you will receive any updates to my blog direct to your email inbox.

More Information

You can get more information on web feeds, RSS feed readers and blogs at the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator