How can I subscribe to the co-creation blog
There are two ways of subscribing to the co-creation blog:
The simplest way is to subscribe with email and have the latest co-creation topics delivered to your inbox. Simply click on the mail icon on the right hand side, and you will only need to enter your email address to subscribe.
If you are familiar with RSS feeds, you would already know the advantages of having your favourite feeds all coming together in one place.
What are feeds?
Feeds are a way for websites large and small to distribute their content well beyond just visitors using browsers. Feeds permit subscription to regular updates, delivered automatically via a web portal, news reader, or in some cases good old email. Feeds also make it possible for site content to be packaged into “widgets,” “gadgets,” mobile devices, and other bite-sized technologies that make it possible to display blogs, podcasts, and major news/sports/weather/whatever headlines just about anywhere.
What Does This Mean?
You may recognize the universal feed icon or these “chicklets” from your favorite websites, blogs, and podcasts. These icons represent content in any format – text, audio or video – to which you can subscribe and read/watch/listen using a feed reader. What’s that?
How do I read feeds?
If you want to browse and subscribe to feeds, you have many choices. Today, there are more than 2,000 different feed reading applications, also known as “news aggregators” (for text, mostly) or “podcatchers” (for podcasts). There are even readers that work exclusively on mobile devices.
Some require a small purchase price but are tops for ease-of-use and ship with dozens of feeds pre-loaded so you can explore the feed “universe” right away. Free readers are available as well; a search for “Feed reader” or “Feed aggregator” at popular search sites will yield many results. A handful of popular feed readers are listed at the bottom of this page.
A typical interface for a feed reader will display your feeds and the number of new (unread) entries within each of those feeds. You can also organize your feeds into categories and even clip and save your favorite entries (with certain applications).
If you prefer, you can use an online, web-based service to track and manage feeds. Online services give you the advantage of being able to access your feed updates anywhere you can find a web browser. Also, upgrades and new features are added automatically.
Show me what a typical feed reader looks like.
Popular Feed Readers:
Online Services
Popular Feed Readers
- NewsGator – FeedDemon 2.0 (Windows, more info)
- NewsGator – Inbox for Microsoft Outlook (Windows)
- NewsGator – NetNewsWire (OS X)
- Firefox (via “Live Bookmarks” feature)
- Safari (feed support in the Apple OS X native browser)
- Pulp Fiction (OS X)
