Blogs are big stuff these days... there are a ton of postings taking place, there are a wide variety of tools, and soon the functionality will even be embedded in operating systems. If you aren't using an RSS reader, you will be in another year.

Do we have any feeds out there specific to the S2000? Personal or commercial?

Here's my own personal feed. I toss in a couple of other Honda and Acura items as well - just to show what the company is up too.

My RSS feed for the S2000 <=== drop this into your RSS reader.

 

 

Same thing here.!

 

Never heard of it either. But it's about reading blogs. Maybe it's the "Read Stupid Shit" software. HPH

 

Blog aka "Weblog"

A weblog is usually defined as a personal or noncommercial web site that uses a dated log format (usually with the most recent addition at the top of the page) and contains links to other web sites along with commentary about those sites. A weblog is updated frequently and sometimes groups links by specific subjects, such as politics, news, pop culture, or computer issues.

 

OK, I see. Since this thread is in S2000 Talk, I thought it had something to do with an S2000.
Wouldn't it make more sense to put this in the "Computers and the Internet" forum? Or maybe even the "Site Info" forum? It makes even less sense to be in STalk.

 

"Really Simple Syndication".

And it's all about "talking about S2000s", not building or using a computer.

There are dozens of feeds about automobiles... some are commercial and have things like press releases. Some are personal, and have pics of automotive events of all types - racing, collecting, random thoughts, etc.

There are feeds about all kinds of cars out there... except S2000s (not counting mine).

The XML file in my original post is used for subscribing. But, you use a tool (tehre are *many* - one is Desktop Sidebar) for viewing. I currently subscribe to 38 different feeds (syndications) about automobiles and another 30 about some aspects of my own industry. There are a lot of great feeds, including some very nice feeds written professionally.

When somebody adds a "post" to their own feed, it gets to your reader within moments.

 

RSS is common enough that a lot of users here know what it is or already use it. It is, "really simply" a way to aggregate information from all over the web into a single place. It is better than bookmarks because it dynamically updates searches etc. Sort of like a subscription to a thread on S2ki but imagine having all your subscriptions to different forums in one reader.

Here's an example. For those who use craigslist, let's say you are really looking for a used S2000, a used MR2, and a 19" Samsung LCD display. Yeah you can go to craigslist like 5 times a day and manually search. Or you can do the search once, click the little "RSS" link at the bottom, copy the urls into your RSS reader, and voila- you will now have 3 continuously updating searches for "S2000", "MR2", and "19 Samsung LCD". And instead of updating 5 times a day, it can update every 5 minutes.

More and more message boards are using RSS every day and that's a good thing IMO. You don't need any special equipment or expensive software, there are tons of free RSS readers and My Yahoo also displays RSS content (go to Add Content -> Enter RSS by URL). I can check up on several message board threads, craigslist searches, and computer bargains in less than a minute, even on a computer without bookmarks.

There's a good FAQ about it here:

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/arti...,111699,00.asp

Peter

 

Thanks, Peter!