Why Aren’t You Using RSS?
From Blogcritics.org: Why Aren’t You Using RSS?
为啥不试试RSS？
JP
Chances are, you’re not entirely sure what the point of RSS is. I saw that little orange icon in Firefox, I‘ve also seen their "live bookmarks" feature, which just looks cumbersome, and just never thought it could be helpful to me. Now, I wouldn’t live without it. Here’s why.
大概你并没有RSS的概念，同样，对于我来说也是如此。我经常看到Firefox上的桔红色小图标，以及其“活动书签”的特性，而且一直认为这个很麻烦，从来没想到他能够帮助我。但这会儿我已经离不开他了，原因如下。
If you’re like me, you have a ton of sites bookmarked or on your favorites list, depending on your browser of choice. That browser should be Firefox, by the way, but that’s beside the point. You may have evolved and developed a list of maybe five, ten, fifteen sites you check every day to "stay in touch." RSS is a way you can be MORE in touch — with a higher number of sites — while doing less work.
如果你像我一样收藏夹里保存了大量的网址需要经常翻看，那么RSS能让你事半功倍。
Here’s what you do. Get an RSS reader; I’m using Sage for Firefox right now. There’s a search button in the Sage sidebar that searches for feeds of the site youre currently reading (feeds are XML documents that provide updated content from a particular website).
你所做的就是就是弄来一个RSS浏览工具。我现在用的是Sage for Firefox。在Sage的侧边栏上有一个搜索按钮，可以用来搜索Feeds－一种提供特供特定网页更新内容的XML文档。
Let’s say youre reading a blog and you enjoy the writing, so you want to check in on it regularly to read new posts. Great, it turns out this blog has a feed to enable this, as do many ordinary websites and online publications.
If you click on the feed URL (in the case of a Blogger blog, it’s the URL with "atom.xml" after it) you will see a messy document you can’t read, but your RSS reader can. That document is updated each time a new post is saved to this blog. Your RSS reader pulls down that document and shows you each post’s title — and "marks as unread" any new ones you haven’t seen yet.
如果你遇到一个中意的Blog，并且想继续关注下去。那么可以点一下Blog提供的Feed地址，但你会发现一大堆看不懂的玩意儿。这时候你的RSS浏览工具就派上用场了－用它来读。In fact, the RSS reader pulls all your feeds when you click "Refresh" and highlights the ones with new content. In one button-click and about 30 seconds of refreshing, I can tell that (as an example) there is new content on two of my friends’ blogs but not four others, new articles on four online magazines I read but not six others, etc. Just in that example, there are ten websites I no longer have to open!
你只需在你的RSS工具里刷新一下，就能发现A博客更新了，B杂志有新的文章，C网站没啥动静，再也不用开一堆窗口了。
For the ones with new content, I click the feed name and get a list of all the articles, with unread ones highlighted. I can read any of the unread content I wish by clicking on the article title, and the article pulls up in the main browser pane on the right. Once done, I click "mark all as read" and move on to the next feed. If you select your feeds well — specifically, blogs that focus on topics you are interested in, where the blog author frequently links to news articles about the topic, as it is his or her passionate area of interest — you can have a handful of blog publishers doing a lot of your research for you.
点击一下更新的内容，会发现一串文章列表，剩下就是你的事了，爱读哪个读哪个。
As an example, I keep up with several of my favorite musical artists this way. I subscribe to active blogs about them, which link to as many band-related news articles as they can find. This is, literally, the best thing since sliced bread. And heaven knows I love sliced bread, so that’s saying a lot.
查了查字典，发现the best thing since sliced bread是个俚语，意思就是“最好的事儿”。嗯，处处皆学问。
So now you know what RSS is, and how to use it. Be off, get yourself an RSS reader, and stop visiting any blog when there\’s nothing new to read.
文章很简单，我的翻译很烂，不过能明白大概意思就行了，毕竟不是考试。之所以翻这个是因为有个热爱博客的伙计还是在一个一个的网站看，很明显不符合建设节约型社会的大政方针，你想，开了那么多窗口，该浪费多少系统资源啊。
文章的作者用的是Sage，由于这个是Firefox的扩展，说起来相对麻烦些。我就推荐一下Bloglines，一个在线的RSS浏览工具，不论是IE还是Fx，让你想看就看。呵呵，别忘了订阅一下乱七BaR。
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