I have been confounded of late by the complete unreliability of tribe.net.  I really love the site, and have for years, but I miss being able to get my regular blogs. I love reading blogs, but I hate having to open them all over the place. So I decided to look into this RSS thing.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndicating. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)) Basically, it goes to sites you designate (they are the ones you check for new content daily on) and puts them all into one site.

I am using Google Reader. It’s free and web based. I am just now learning it, but it seems pretty simple. It gives all the blogs and stuff you read a unified look. You can also subscribe to flickr photo streams (find KT’s, Josh’s and Angel Adam’s feeds, even video. You can get non blog feeds, like fedex and ups tracking,weather alerts, and automated ebay auction searches.  Like I said, I am just learning it. But I see this whole new world.

google.com/reader and apparently, they just released a version for the iphone.

others I have not used. shrook for the mac (free and offline, so it storse on your hardrive utsire.com/shrook), FeedDemon for windows and netnewswire for macs available at newsgator.com

so to subscribe, your reader needs a site’s rss feed site. This will look like a regular website. For example, my blog here has a feed site( feed://spaceman23.wordpress.com/feed/) just paste that into google reader, and viola! anytime I post here, you will be able to see it in your reader program.

Most sites where you blog will automatically create a RSS feed for you (even myspace!). Although, I am not sure if tribe does it, mainly because tribe no worky anymore.  Now that you are looking for it, keep you eye out for the little orange icon at the top of this page.  Then paste those feeds into your reader!

My friend Ali turned me onto a really cool internet hack, using youtube to learn how to do anything. Basically, type in “how to…” and there will be videos from hundreds of sources around the net.  I learned how to use automater in mac the other day, and how to import video from my flip to imovie. check out this video.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihbh1HguIUk]

click this if the video no worky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihbh1HguIUk

It’s a little dry, but i love that my friend the internet can show me everything I need to know. I loves the internets.