GOOGLE READER
To follow these directions you will need an existing Google account. If you don't have a Google account and don't want to create one, you don't have to. That is the beauty of RSS. You can use one of many other feed readers. I would recommend the feed reader in Thunderbird (see below) or another I have used called RSS Bandit (windows only).
Click on the Posts button with the RSS icon (
).
Click on the Add to Google icon. (note the list of other popular feed readers)
You will get a screen that looks like this. Click the button that says Add to Google Reader
Congratulations, you are now "subscribed" to a "feed" from my blog. Now whenever I add something new it will show up in your reader.
If you look on other websites for the icon or for a section called RSS feeds you may discover that there are a lot of websites you can subscribe to.
There is another kind of syndication called Atom. Most readers can handle either Atom or RSS and subscribing works the same way for either one. From an RSS consumer point of view, as long as your reader understands both systems, you don't have to worry about it.
THUNDERBIRD
For Thunderbird you have to create an RSS account. Click File|New|Account and you will get this screen.
Click Next and your account will show up in the folder panel on the left
Click Manage Subscriptions and then Add and enter the URL of the subscription. In most cases you can get the URL by right clicking on the RSS link and copying the URL of the link. In Firefox this is called Copy Link Location.
Then the articles from the feed you have added will show up like this.
Posts
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