Bloglines.com

How to use bloglinesBy: Jake Szymanski

First Register:

Register:

Fill out all required fields!USE A REAL EMAIL!

Once registered:

• A verification message will be sent to the email address you entered, click the link provided in this email.

• Once you have clicked the link you have confirmed your account.

• If you do not confirm your account the following message will appear…

Getting started:

• Bloglines gives you the ability to collect multiple RSS feeds and view them on one page.

• The final product will look something like this…

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What’s shown:

1. List of “feeds” you’ve signed up for.2. Title of opened feed.3. RSS feed. This is usually a summary of the

featured article and if you are interested in this article you can follow the link and read the full article.

Signing up for a RSS feed

There are many ways to sign up for RSS’ feeds. We will cover 3.

1: The Easiest Way

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Steps:

1. Click add button.2. Brings you to a list of supported feeds.3. Select a feed that interests you.4. Finally hit subscribe and you are

automatically subscribed to the RSS feed.

2: More advanced way.

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Steps:

1. Go to your favorite website.2. Search the page for a link called either RSS or RSS feeds,

follow this link.3. The link will bring you to a list of the websites RSS feeds,

select one which suits you.4. After clicking the link a pop-up will appear, this pop-up will

show code jibberish do not pay attention to this, instead highlight and copy the URL.

5. Return to the bloglines add page and paste the URL in the RSS URL space and click subscribe.

6. You will be given a list of options that allow you to select how the feed behaves to your preferences, click subscribe again and you have now officially subscribed to that RSS feed.

3: Easy but rare

• This option is carried out the same way as option 2 in that you can subscribe to posts directly from the website, however there are few websites that support bloglines.

• Steps:1. Follow the RSS link2. Select a feed.3. Click subscribe to “ ” in this case it would be bloglines. When using this option be sure to be signed into bloglines.

When you click subscribe to bloglines it will automatically open a window to bloglines and subscribe for you without the hassle of copying the URL.

Bloglines:

Bloglines is a useful web page that allows you to collect all of your favorite RSS feeds on one screen, so that you can easily access them.

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