Subscribing to and reading a feed with Mozilla’s Firefox browser is really quick and easy.

Just browse your way to a website and look down to the lower right-hand corner of your screen, not where the actual web page is displayed, but just below it in the browser bar at the bottom of the screen. If you see an orange cube there with what looks like radiating radio waves, put your cursor over it. That’s the Firefox Live Bookmarks button.
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To use My Yahoo, you need a free Yahoo account. It only takes a minute to set up, and it includes a free Yahoo email address with tons of storage. If you don’t already have an account, you can set it up at the same time that you use the My Yahoo feed reader.

My Yahoo lets you create a customized Yahoo page with all sorts of content from Yahoo and elsewhere on a broad range of topics. (more…)

Regardless of which RSS feed reader you use, you have to tell it where the feed is that you want to read, just like you have to tell a web browser where the website is. You give the reader the web address of the feed, also known as the feed URL, just like you’d give the web URL to your web browser. To find feeds, check out my current lists of RSS feed directories and search engines. If you’re looking for the feed from a blog, you can find specific blogs in my current lists of blog directories and search engines. (more…)

As an RSS feed consumer, you have a lot of choices, and many of them are free. It’s like the early browser wars. There are lots of competitors offering a core set of features plus their own special enhancements. Some are buggier than others. Some don’t offer the latest features (like audio and video enclosures, which we’ll discuss soon) yet, but they’re working on them. Some run on more OS platforms than others. Some integrate the features of a web browser, an old-style internet news group reader, and an RSS feed reader, while others only display RSS feeds. You’ve got to do a bit of research to find the one that’s best for your needs.

Use my list of popular RSS feed readers on my website as a starting point.

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