Imperishable Inheritance

If you’re like me, you have more than 20 blogs that you like to visit; or maybe you only have 2-3. The point being it is a lot to con­tin­u­ally remem­ber to visit those blogs indi­vid­u­ally to get updates. Surely in 2006 this process can be auto­mated right? You’re in luck, and I’m going to show you can get updates from this blog with­out ever having to visit (if you so choose).

It should be noted that I do not include my Asides in any of my syn­di­ca­tion. I don’t want to over­whelm my read­ers with those little updates.

Sub­scribe Via E-mail

On my front page is a little form (see image) that you can insert your e-mail and be noti­fied by e-mail when I add a post. You can always unsub­scribe, and I give my per­sonal guar­an­tee that your e-mail won’t be resold or abused in any way. If you can’t live with­out your e-mail this is one way to go!

Sub­scribe Via RSS

A really neat tech­nol­ogy is RSS (Really Simple Syn­di­ca­tion). What this tech­nol­ogy does is put all your blogs in one spot and you can go to one place to view all the blogs your sub­scribed to. This is the way I read blogs, and you can view my blogroll.

All you have to do is go and get a free RSS reader, and sub­scribe to the blogs you fre­quent. I sug­gest Blog­lines, but there are other good ones includ­ing Google Reader, Netvibes, and browser based feed read­ers. I’ve already posted instruc­tions on how to sub­scribe with Blog­lines a while back that you can ref­er­ence. I also import my RSS feed into Face­book so if you have an account than you can read it through there, and the same is true for Xanga.

Here is a link to my RSS feed.

E-mail Post

Let’s say there is a post that you think a friend would enjoy. You can easily send them a link with some com­ments. Just click “E-mail Post” under the “Post Information” link. There you can input the infor­ma­tion to send to a friend with your com­ments.

If You Prefer To Listen

If read­ing is just to labo­ri­ous for you (and I know some of my posts are like that), you can simply listen to my posts with my pod­cast. This will give you the text and a link for a dynam­i­cally gen­er­ated mp3 with a nice woman’s voice that reads the post to you. You can still put it into your RSS reader to be updated.

Here is my Pod­cast feed.