RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary”, or “Real Simple Syndication”. In plain english, RSS is a way to have the Morning Brief delivered to you like email. Each time we add a post, you get an email with the story. No more having to keep checking the Morning Brief to see if we’ve added anything.<\/p>\n
One of the better explanations of RSS and Live Bookmarks<\/a> is from the folks at Mozilla, which produces our favorite browser, Firefox<\/a>, and our favorite email client\/news reader, Thunderbird<\/a>. <\/p>\n We heartily recommend both of those products which can be downloaded free by clicking the links above. <\/p>\n If you want to try using a “newsreader” to get our syndication feed, Thunderbird has a very simple set up. Even if you are married to your current email program and don’t want to switch, you can use Thunderbird as your RSS newsreader.<\/p>\n Here is a peek at our RSS syndication feed: If you have or install Thunderbird, here are the easy to follow instructions on how to set it up<\/a>. Remember to copy the Morning Brief syndication link (the link right above this paragraph), as you’ll need to paste it into Thunderbird. <\/p>\n Or just follow these step-by-step instructions for Thunderbird:<\/p>\n * copy this URL For those of you married to Outlook, here is an add-on program called “RSS Popper”<\/a> and will allow you to get RSS feeds via email. (click RSS Popper link to download)<\/p>\n Don’t be intimidated by all of the jargon. It’s actually easier than setting up email. If all else fails, and you can’t get RSS to work on Firefox, email me <\/a><\/em>and I’ll walk you through it. Once you’ve used RSS, you wonder how you ever got along without it.<\/p>\n This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. So just copy the url of this page into your rss-reader: (not a link to be clicked, but rather, to copy and paste into your RSS-reader.
\nhttp:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/wp-rss2.php<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/wp-rss2.php
\n * then in Thunderbird, go to New acccount
\n * News & Blogs
\n * Manage subscriptions
\n * Add
\n * OK<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/wp-rss2.php<\/p>\n