Wednesday, November 24, 2004

What is an atom feed? Those of us who are not geeks don't understand!! Love CMT

Although not in any way an inhabitant of geeksville, I think that an atom feed is some way of telling other people's websites when you've updated your site. Clicking on the appropriately named clicky-linky-feedy-thingy bit o'er there seems to suggest that I'm thinking along the right lines at least. Beyond that, though, is a mystery.

2 comments:

Simon said...

An atom feed is a file where blog entries are put in a standard format so a computer can understand them and compile them together. So you can have a computer programme that shows you what your friends and favourite bloggers have written at a glance.

As they say on the BBC, other feed formats are available.

Anonymous said...

cheers all, I have explained it all to Alex so he won't have to ask daft questions like me. Love CMT