Blogs at Penn State Community

Find the Blog Newsfeed

You have the option of subscribing to a blog's newsfeed (or "RSS feed") by doing the following.

1. Navigate to your published blog (e.g. http://www.personal.psu.edu/xyz123/blogs/).
2. Click the link for Subscribe to this blog's feed in the sidebar. Right click and select the option for copying the link URL.
3. Open a news reader application such as Feed Reader (Windows), NetNewsWire Lite (Mac), Bloglines (Web), Google Reader (Web), Thunderbird (Mac/Windows) or Firefox 2.0.
4. Create a new subscribtion and paste the blog's feed URL. The most recent headlines for the blog will be displayed.

Aggregate and Monitor Course Blog Feeds

If you are instructor or staff member monitoring multiple blogs, then you can use the folder feature in a newsreader to monitor multiple feeds in one location.

Just create a folder for each course or topic you monitor then move your subscriptions to the appropriate forlder. Each folder will list stories for all feeds in the folder and distinguish read and unread stories. Below are instructions for how to set up a newsfeed folder for a course.

What is an RSS Blog feed?

A news feed is a text file which lists the headlines for new blog headlines. The Newsfeed can be viewed in new browsers such as Internet Explorer 7, Safari 2 or Firefox 2.

News feed applications such as Blogines.com (Web), Google Reader (Web), Thunderbird (Win/Mac), Feed Reader (Win) or NetNewsWire Lite (Mac) allow you to subscribe to favorite feeds and organize them into folders by topic.

Read the Using RSS Newsfeeds to Get the Latest Headlines page for more detailed information on RSS and RSS newsreaders.