RSS Feed and Other New Neat Stuff

The first step to podcasting is accomplished. Here is the URL for our new RSS feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/OnComputersTips

It is hosted by feedburner. If you click on the link you will get a nicely formatted page with instructions for using the RSS feed. This is the same link you get when you click on the XML button. I've also noticed that now that we have the blog set up for it you can set up a live bookmark in Firefox (you should see a little orange square in the lower right hand corner of the Firefox browser window). I've already set up Firefox and own My Yahoo account with our feed so I'm having a lot of fun with it. Even though Jane has already done a fine RSS tutorial, I'm sure we will be talking about the particulars of what we did on the blog and why we did it.

While this link will open in a Web browser, it is intended to be used in a news aggregator or syndicated on a Web site. We are currently updating the On Computers Tips site to include sydication of the five most recent items posted here. We are also adding new members to our blogging team. As soon as they are added you will start seeing both their posts and their commentary to existing posts.

Further, I have updated the blog template (the design of this page). In so doing, we gained a lot of features but lost the handy links back to On Computers. I will be working on customizing the template to reinstitute the links we lost, but it is something that can't be rushed because it can majorly screw up the blog if it is not done right.