I will talk about information feeds from web sites delivered to mycomputer device. I use the term feeds and by that I mean both RSS feedsand Atom feeds, the two feed protocols which are very similar.

I believe it is very likely you as listener to Hacker Public Radioknow about feeds. Not unlikely you even know the technical details farbetter than I do.

Nowadays many of us use feeds very often without thinking of them asfeeds, when we subscribe to podcasts.

But feeds have been around for many years. Back in the days, I usedfeeds for websites I was interested in. But somehow I forgot about itand web browsers stopped to support feed subscriptions.

A year or two ago I started my new journey into feeds. Although it isnot so much talk about feeds nowadays, very many web sites have supportfor feed subscriptions.

To start, at my own personal web site (https://www.hemrin.com/)many of the pages have feeds, typically those that are blog-like pages,and you can subscribe to several feeds on my site.

From Hacker Public Radio I subscribe to a feed for all show comments.So when you write a comment regarding my show today, I will get notifiedin my feed manager.

I primarily use Thunderbird to manage my feeds. I do not need myfeeds to be synced to other devices. I use Thunderbird daily for e-mailsand it is therefore very practical and natural for me to use it also forfeeds. In addition I use the Feeder app on my Android-based phone forsome feeds.

I do not use feeds for web sites I anyway will visit often or thathave a lot of news. I would be overwhelmed of feeds. Instead I use feedsfor web sites which are not updated so frequently but are sites I wantto keep an eye on. But some are updated daily, like from theparliament.

In some cases, feeds are an alternative to subscribe to e-mailnotifications and e-mail newsletters.

The beauty with feeds is that I am in charge and without giving oute-mail or anything - the site owner do not know I subscribe.Subscription starts so simple as I type the feed-url into my Thunderbirdfeed manager. And when I want to end a subscription, I simply deleteit.

Furthermore I subscribe to Status pages. I get notifications forexample from my internet service provider for their planned andunplanned maintenance.

Several authorities have interesting feeds.

I have feeds from some companies and organizations.

I have feeds from many software developers, for example Thunderbirdand Linux Mint.

I have feeds from some journalists and politicians and alike.

I have feeds from persons with competence in various areas I aminterested in. And other persons who are interesting for the personsthey are and their thoughts.

So, this show is to tell you that I have rediscovered feeds and foundthem useful for me. Maybe you already use feeds. Maybe this show willinspire you to have a look into feeds as a useful tool for your personalor professional life.