I have seen references to RSS feeds on several sites I visit but had never grasped the concept.
I had even read all about them on Wikipedia, and had been no better informed of the functionality as it relates to me and what I do!
Tonight, my Wife, an non-programmer and who often calls for my help in matters “computer”, started a blog and suggested I add her “RSS” feed from her blog to my Firefox browser.
My response was, OK, I know that there is such a thing as RSS Feeds, as I am constantly offered to avail myself of them, but, hey, I have got by for over 60 years without one!
So, next step, with her standing at my desk, was to go to her new blog site, navigate as per her instructions, and voila, now I have an RSS Feed from her site to by browser.
What has happened here, is a practical demonstration of “how” something works, that I had never been able to grab from reading descriptions. Maybe I had never grabbed the concept as it was something I was locking out! Perhaps so!
But now I do have a live RSS feed from “Magnetic North”
Live and Learn.
John
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