{"id":590,"date":"2007-05-10T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/more-on-rss.html"},"modified":"2007-05-10T10:02:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T15:02:54","slug":"more-on-rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/more-on-rss.html","title":{"rendered":"More on RSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/photo-updates-and-rss-feed.html\">my long post about photos and <b>RSS and news readers<\/b><\/a>, I came across a short video explaining the benefits of RSS &quot;in plain English&quot;, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebellsite.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/07\/rss-2\/\">Jackie and Fran Bell<\/a>. &nbsp;Admittedly, the video does move pretty fast, but the part with the arrows is a very simple clear explanation if you&#8217;re wondering why in the world you should care about the whole RSS thing.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the picture to go to the 3.5 minute video.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncraft.com\/rss_plain_english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/CottrillCompass.com\/images\/rss-plain-english.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"224\" border=\"0\" alt=\"RSS in plain English\" \/><br \/><font size=\"-2\">RSS in plain English<\/font><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my long post about photos and RSS and news readers, I came across a short video explaining the benefits of RSS &quot;in plain English&quot;, thanks to Jackie and Fran Bell. &nbsp;Admittedly, the video does move pretty fast, but the part with the arrows is a very simple clear explanation if you&#8217;re wondering why in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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