How to Turbo Charge your Fantasy Baseball Information Consumption
You simply won’t find an article that has the potential to impact your fantasy baseball “skills” more than this one can.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to:
- Receive instant injury updates, managerial decisions, and prospect information from all 30 MLB teams in one screen?
- Browse entire message board content, and receive all Rotoworld & Fanball news blurbs in a matter of 3 clicks?
- Quickly navigate through your favorite blogs, and Baseball headlines, and bypass irrelevant or unimportant information?
If you’re not convinced, than I’ll have to beg you to take my word for it. It’s something I’ve been taking advantage of for the last 2 years.
Here’s How it Works
Almost every blog/news/major-media website publishes a RSS feed. All you have to do is click a simple button to subscribe. Once you subscribe to the RSS feed, updates will automatically be sent to your Feed Reader — A Feed Reader is just a fancy name for a web based tool that consolidates all of your subscriptions, and puts them in a pretty interface for your reading pleasure.
I thought it would be a good idea to walk you through the set up, since its easy to get scared by unfamiliar abbreviations.
I will show you how to:
- Get a feed reader
- Identify sites that publish a feed, and
- Subscribe to a feed
Here’s How to Get a Feed Reader
Go to Bloglines.com and create an account. There’s alternatives to Bloglines, but in the interest of simplicity, I’ll recommend Bloglines for now. After you’ve created an account, come back here.
You now have a feed reader. That wasn’t hard was it?
Here’s How to Identify Website’s That Publish a Feed
The orange button below is the recognized symbol for sites that publish a feed (you might see variations of this symbol but they essentially do the same thing)
Clicking this button will take you to a page with an array of subscription options… Simply find anything that reads: “Bloglines” and click it to subscribe.
You’ve now manually subscribed to your first RSS feed. Go back to Bloglines.com and click the “feeds” tab at the top left, you should see your new feed.
Now you can visit your favorite blogs, and news sites, and subscribe to their feed.
Almost every blog publishes a feed whether you see that symbol or not. You can copy the website URL manually and paste it into Bloglines, if you don’t see the symbol.
Once you subscribe, you won’t have to manually visit those sites anymore, just read the content in your feed reader and save yourself a Giganto-matic amount of time!
More of a visual learner? check out this video:
Now you know how to subscribe to blogs. Here’s a list I compiled of 100+ best baseball blogs.
I use the Sage reader for firefox. It pulls up in a sidebar, and uses simple mouseovers. I can read the teaser from any source without even visiting the site if needed.
I have every team, every team paper, and most team blogs [there is a new mets blog every week so its tough] via RSS.
i do recommend taking the time to set it up.
Its amazing.
also, if you blog, try a firefox extension called scribefire. i couldn’t live without it.
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Has RSS not caught on yet? I’ve been using it for years now…
FWIW, I guess the more people advocating, the better…
In technology niches everybody uses it.
In sports niches, people use it, but not as much as they should.
I did a bunch of google searches to find other sports bloggers who’ve wrote about it. once nothing came up, I took a crack at it.
i just added this site and many others to my own MY YAHOO page, but for this site, the feeds come in the oldest first, so maybe there is a problem with your setup or maybe its my yahoo’s problem, however every other site has the newest feeds on top.
thats bizarre. I’ll have to look into my feedburner settings and see what I find. thanks for the heads up.
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I use my Google homepage for all my feeds, I just like their setup
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