Add this Blog to Your RSS Reader!

Add this link to your RSS Reader (cut and paste)http://hunterenglish.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

What is an RSS Reader?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) delivers the latest content from websites (blogs, news sites, etc.) to a webpage (a feed reader) that you can access anywhere, anytime. This allows you to control the information you read and when you read it. So instead of visiting a bunch of webpages every day, I can just pull up my Bloglines account and read new postings and stories from the Chronicle, the NY Times Book Review, and a multitude of technology and book review blogs.

First, you need an RSS reader such as Bloglines or NetVibes. Yahoo (MyYahoo) and Google (Google Reader) have readers. Here's a big list o' readers: http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html.

Next, sign up for some feeds. Visit your favorite websites and see if they have an RSS feature.
You are looking (usually at the bottom of the page) for "XML" or "RSS" or "Atom" or it may say "subscribe" or "subscribe to posts." Sometimes there will be an orange icon or box. Your reader will give you instructions for adding new posts.

Clear as mud? Here's a nice video with good instructions "RSS In Plain English"

Some good RSS Feeds to add (Cut and paste links into your reader; if you click on them, you will get gobeldy-gook)
http://www.oed.com/rss.xml - OED Word of the Day
http://litfestival.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default - WCU Literary Festival Blog
http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml - Arts & Letters Daily
http://chronicle.com/help/rss.htm - Chronicle of Higher Education (WCU has a subscription, so if you are on-campus, you can get the full text of all the articles)
http://hunterenglish.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default - This blog!
http://library.wcu.edu/finding/NEWBOOKS/langlitrss.asp - New Books In Lit & Language (at Hunter Library)
http://hunterlibrarynews.blogspot.com/atom.xml - Hunter Library News