On How to Customize your Blog

Thought that he could say it better then I could write it. Plus once I found this out it is plain and simple to follow. : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEzNQ-CoV0

A quick bit on RSS

RSS, the acronym for, “Really Simple Syndication,” is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated sites such as blogs, updated video, and new articles. This benefits readers and publishers who constantly post new info about the happenings they concern themselves with. RSS, an XML based format, can be read using software called an, “RSS reader,” “feed reader,” or “aggregator.” The XML format allows files to be published once then viewed by many different programs. The reader then checks the subscribed feeds by becoming a subscriber to the URL and provides a user interface to check and read the feeds.

An aggregator, or RSS reader, is a web based blog that whose headlines and content are collected by the website owner then uploaded onto their respected page for easy and quick viewing by its subscribers. This can be done as frequently as the host wishes or as often as new content arrives.

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Pitchfork Media

I enjoy this site for its daily updates on the independent music world. It holds album/track reviews and the latest in shows and happenings of the musical artists that I most commonly follow and appreciate. It creates a comprehensive database of the staffs esoteric opinions of the album and why or why not it fits into their, “coolest,” standard. While nothing shows as flashy about the page or groundbreaking in technological design, the content and constant uploads on a subject that I am deeply interested in brings me back daily. Another great aspect the site holds is live sets of a new sort of, “on trial,” band in Pitchfork’s New York office to definitive moments of an established artists set at an important venue.

Since I’ve been reading it daily the quarks and ruminating remarks of the writers have become part of my daily vocabulary.

www.pitchfork.com