What is a blog and what is an RSS feed?
Blogs (or web logs or weblogs)
A "blog" is a frequent, chronological publication of
news, articles and web links.
Blogs can be likened to a person's online journal or diary.
They can, however, also be used by businesses as a useful method of
keeping people (customers, site visitors) up to date with any changes,
company news, site updates, special offers, new products etc.
It is much quicker to publish blog "posts" (articles, news
items), so blogs tend to be more up to date, when compared
to
other website sections.
You can look at our blog just as easily as any other webpage and come
back to it whenever you like to see what's new. Just try it now:
www.cretetravel.com/blog
If you want to receive what is added "automatically", every time there
is a new blog post/article, subscribe to
our RSS feed, or
see below what RSS feeds are and how they work.
RSS feeds (also known as XML feeds)
A blog can provide a "feed" to its news items by
producing an "RSS" formatted document, available via a special URL
(link).
An RSS "news aggregator" or "news reader" is a program that reads RSS
documents and displays new items/articles.
It is similar to an email program (e.g. Outlook Express or Eudora) -
with the benefit of NO SPAM!
With a news reader you can keep up with all your favorite blogs by
checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.
Every time you start your news reader, it downloads the headings of the
new items (like receiving new emails) and if you are interested in an item
you click on it to read it.
As you receive only the feeds you have chosen to subscribe to, there is no chance
of spamming or junk mail. Also, it is just text - no banner ads.
More information and resources
About blogs & blogging:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/XMLFiles/default.aspx
http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20021115.html
More about what RSS feeds are, how you can subscribe to them and where
to find a "newsreader" program (if you don't already have one):
http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2004/jul/23.html
Now that you know all about it...
...see our Crete
Blog and subscribe to our
RSS
feed.
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