If you haven’t noticed, there have been some changes to the theme of the blog. Until now, there was only an option to view the main posts as an RSS Feed, but not the comments. The functionality was there in WordPress, but the theme had not been designed with that option available to anyone viewing the site. So, it was time for a theme change. Like the new theme? Hate it? Let me know your opinions in the comments – now viewable via RSS!
Primarily, the change was made to customize the theme to the topic (law and technology) as well as to enable a seemingly unimportant function: an RSS Feed for comments. Why is that so important, you ask? When someone creates a new post on Digi-Docket, the new post shows up front-and-center on the website. But a comment to an existing post gets no such limelight, and as such can go completely unnoticed (as several have).
The beauty of RSS feeds (“Really Simple Syndication”) is that it can push notifications from multiple sources (news websites, blogs, etc) into one RSS reader. I’ve used Google Reader for several years and found it to be an invaluable tool for keeping track of updates to friends’ blogs. And for this blog, we now have a way to follow comments made to any and all blog posts. So, hopefully a comment made to a post will no longer languish, but will instead continue the conversation.
So, without further ado, here are the two links to follow Digi-Docket via RSS:
- Posts – http://www.digi-docket.com/feed/
- Comments – http://www.digi-docket.com/comments/feed/
- OR, you can click on the nifty icons in the upper right-hand corner of the Digi-Docket site to follow “Posts” or “Comments”
If you want you want to learn more about RSS, you can check out the Wikipedia page here. If you’re just looking for a program to use, you can click here to access Google Reader (you need a Gmail account) or you can click here to see a list of RSS readers.
Personally, I’ve subscribed to both the Posts feed as well as the Comments feed. It can be frustrating to spend time composing a thoughtful reply to a post only to have no responses to it – and perhaps only because no one knew it was there.