By subscribing to the content in a blog (called a feed), you are notified of new information when it’s posted. This means that content is delivered to you as it becomes available. It’s supposed to be simple: RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary.

After you’ve decided you want to subscribe, it’s a bit confusing since there are so many ways to get the information delivered to you. Here, I’ve tried to simplify it for you.

Email
The simplest may be to enter your email address and have a summary delivered to your inbox. Click the link below to do this.

Subscribe to Whisk: a food blog by email



Readers
A reader is a central location that collects all the information from the various web sites you’ve subscribed to, like a personal newspaper. Readers have a variety of names: feed readers, feed aggregators, news reader, or aggregator. Wikipedia lists all the different feed readers at this link.
There are readers that are applications on your desktop (called a client application) or there are web-based readers. Popular desktop readers include Amphetadesk, FeedReader, and NewsGator. Popular web-based readers include Bloglines, My Yahoo, and Google Reader.

• To subscribe to this blog’s content in a desktop reader, follow the instructions for subscribing in your client application.

• To subscribe to this blog’s content in a web-based reader, click the link below to send headlines to your favorite reader or personal page using the web-based reader you prefer. After you click this link, you will be taken to a page where you can specify which web-based reader you want to use.

Subscribe to Whisk: a food blog in a reader.