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Keeping track of the news when you’re on dialup

Posted by Editor | July 10, 2007 | Categories: Site news | Comments Off

There are still a lot of people in the area who don’t have the option of high speed yet. Of course, when ICE begins offering it to more areas, we’ll be the first to let you know here!

Meanwhile, the question remains what’s the best way to keep up on the Talamanca News when I have to use expensive dialup services? Well the answer is to subscribe to the RSS (”Really Simple Syndication”) feed via RSS reader software.

I use a free program called Feedreader. You can get more information on it and download it at www.feedreader.com.

What this does is check for all the news sources you’ve subscribed to when you’re online and download them to your computer. It pops up a little window on your toolbar when a new article comes in. That alone is an advantage since you don’t need to check every site you’re interested in to see if there are new articles. But better yet you need not still be connected to your dial-up when you open and read the article (some articles depending on the source, do require you to be online to see some of the content or read the full article, others you can see the whole thing).

And what do I mean by “news sources”? Well beyond the Talamanca News, almost all blogs support RSS as do most news outlets. And often they support it in a rich way that let’s you search for specific things you are interested in.

So here, for example are some news sources you might subscribe to:

You don’t have to remember ugly URL addresses like those though. In FeedReader and other programs, you can just enter the base address when you’re asked for the address of the feed and it will search for feeds. Or, look for a button on the page like “Subscribe via RSS”.

The Talamanca News offers not only an RSS Feed, but we’ll also email you new articles as they are posted if you like. Check out all the options on the Subscribe page.

Got questions? Leave them in a comment to this article and I’ll try and address them.


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