How To Subscribe to a News Feed

One feature of news feeds is that you can subscribe to them. This means that you can set things up so that whenever someone posts something new on a feed, you can be alerted to that fact. There are several methods for being alerted, including being sent an email or even a message to your cell phone, or simply having your browser indicate new arrivals by bookmarking the feed.

Want to learn all about this in plan English? Then this video, RSS in Plain English, is "required viewing" for you. In a few minutes, you will learn about subscribing to feeds using a reader of your choice. (After viewing the video, close that screen to see this screen again.)

When you click the icon associated with any news item, you will be presented all the news in that feed along with several "buttons" for subscribing to that feed if you wish to do that. You will learn about subscribing to feeds and about those buttons when you click the first link below.

Consider using the Yahoo reader because Yahoo also offers email alerts when anything new is posted, so you don't even have to go to your MyYahoo page to see what's new. To learn more about alerts, return to the home page and click "How to Create an Alert".

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