Do any of you use the "feeds" instead of the AOL alerts?
I am experimenting with it. I have tried the AOL feed before but everytime I cleared my cache I lost all the feeds that I subscribed to. So now I am playing around with the google feed and the yahoo feed. Which do I like best? Don't know. Is another one better?
I get a couple of feeds for some Blogger blogs but I can't remember which feed and I don't think we have it as an option yet. I like it because I get an email once a day that tells every blog that updated the day before. Sure it's a day late but all the blogs are in one email. I like that.
I have cut back on my alerts and I still think I would like to get rid of them. Or at least to try something else and if I hate it I can always come back to AOL alerts.
Anyone with ideas or suggestions?
15 comments:
I know NOTHING about feeds or how to do them...would like to learn as I would like that I think. Also now that I have a blog on blogspot or whatever it's called, I'd like to find out about getting a feed there. But I'm lost, I'm so tech challenged. :(
Hugs, Sugar
I have no idea! Usually when I start messing with other stuff, I mess AOL up.
Missie
I use the aol feeds only if the alerts go down. but still not sure what Im doing. I dont loose them with my cahse clearing
I'm blank on that one, I've never used the feeds ~ but then I'm always afraid I'm going to mess something else up when I do try new things as far as technical things are concerned lol. Teresa
I don't even know what AOL feeds are. I use the alerts and when they are down I just make visits.
Pam
I have all the blogs I read on my Technorati thingy. If I fall behind with alerts, I jot down screennames and chase them using Technorati. Works reasonably well.
Not me. I read one to three journals daily. : )
I found I stopped living real live, when all I did is read a lot of journals every day. It was getting to be work. Now, I go back to journals I used to read a lot once in a while and catch up.
I am strictly an alerts kind of a girl..I have all of the Journals that i have on alerts saved so if I think that I haven't been getting any alerts i do a quick check that way...I know i have been absolutely no help have I? LOL
Lyn
I dont even know what feeds are??? I do Alerts..
I'm sort of a combo girl. I use both...
I'm more comfy with alerts but have sort of figured out feeds enough to use them, but not enough to explain! Does that help YOU? (sorry)
Nancy
I don't do alerts at all. I just check in on my good buddies once a day (usually late at night). Yours is one I drop in on every single day. Just so you know, Kath.
Russ
Kathy
I read this and all the comments with interest because I have been considering feeds, too. I have not tried them yet, but with all the alerts I recieve daily, it is getting very cumbersome to deal with. Let me know what you think after you've tried them for a bit. I might switch, too.
Sam
The only alerts I use are for comments and private journals. I used to use Bloglines but they have some problems. Now I use the Google Reader and it wins hands down. I keep track of all my feeds and all the AOL journals in one place. I couldn't manage with email alerts I would just get buried.
So my vote is for Google Reader!!!!!
Deb
ps I hate the AOL feed thing. It's pain in the butt
Well, now I've read all the comments here and think I need to try something other than AOL alerts. My mailbox is always full up! And I am always trying to empty it. I know there has to be a better way. ...
I hear ya. I'm not too pleased with any of the feeds so far. I find they're unreliable, and too often redundant, in that I get all the updates over and over every time the reader fetches them. AOL alerts are ok, just too many! I like the preview feature the feeds provide, but, I just don't like the results.
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