How To Subscribe to TreeHugger
by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 05.17.06
There are many ways to subscribe to TreeHugger. We already wrote about it in the past, but lets have a second, more newbie-friendly look (if you are a computer wiz, you can probably skip this). First, there are the old-school ways of subscribing to the email newsletter, creating a bookmark or favorite (not really subscribing per se, but well...) and making us your browser homepage. Then there are the more modern content syndication methods...
If you scroll all the way down and look on the right of any page on TreeHugger, you will see a bunch of small buttons (rectangles with the names and logos of various web services). They are used to subscribe to TreeHugger in various ways, and we'll explain what each of them does:
This one is our XML feed. This is the web address used by RSS aggregator software.
What do aggregators do?Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." An aggregator is able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content. (source)
RSS Owl is a good free aggregator that works on Windows, Mac and Linux -- see its documentation to learn how it works. You can download it there:
Here is a screen capture of what RSS Owl looks like. To subscribe to TreeHugger in it, you click on the "New" button on the top left (red arrow), and then cut & paste our XML feel address (circled in red).
Then we have the Google Reader button which allows you to subscribe to TreeHugger on your Google Homepage or Google Reader account (when you press the button, you'll be asked what you want to do). Once you have subscribed that way, you will either see TreeHugger headlines on your Google homepage when you are signed it, or you will be able to read TreeHugger posts in Google Reader. Here's a screen capture:
You can subscribe to TreeHugger via Yahoo by clicking on the button above. It will add TreeHugger headlines to you My Yahoo! page, and you can move these headlines around the page so they are where you want them. See the screen capture below:
You can do the same thing with MSN by clicking on the button above.
There's also Bloglines, a web-based aggregator (you don't need to download software). It looks like this:
Then there's Newsgator, a company that sells various softwares to syndicate content on the web.
Kinja shows you headlines from the sites you've subscribed to, but also much more: stats, traffic and one click access to many other web-tools. Check it out:
Finally, there's Pluck. A RSS aggregator that allows you to read syndicated content, including TreeHugger's. See what it looks like below:
We hope you now understand better the various ways of subscribing to TreeHugger. Thanks for reading!
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GOOD LUCK,
Cathy Parksville
I love your RSS feed except it sends SO many articles. I can't keep up. You should make a 'best of feed' for those of us that don't have all day to go through our news readers.
Mike, there's no "Author" field in the XML feed. I like to know who's writing the post. Can you fix this, please?
Thanks!
"I love your RSS feed except it sends SO many articles. I can't keep up. You should make a 'best of feed' for those of us that don't have all day to go through our news readers."
Or make multiple feeds. Like per category.
So i can subscribe to just Design + Architecture and Science + technology.
Agreed, you need to also offer smaller RSS feeds - topic based, keywords, or something like that.
TreeHugger is becoming my most unread RSS feed because there are just too many articles and i have to mark-as-read to catch up.
Basically, I'm just writing to show my support for the former comments. A more section based or best of feed would be really appreciated.
I love reading Treehugger, but there are some things I already know I will skip over and with so many articles I often click mark all as read in order just to keep up with your awesomeness!
In your RSS feed could you please add a line break after the image. Right now the image has 3 words to the right making it hard to read. I would be happy to should you a screen shot. I am using Google Reader.
Could you add a "comments" feed so you can read all the latest comments?
also...
I am writing to show my support for the former comments. More section based feeds would be really appreciated.
I love reading Treehugger, but i have recently unsubscribed due to the heavy volume becauses it has become more of a task than a pleasure. i too would love to only subscribe to design and architecture. please consider if you do this i will come back. thanks!
...but all in all you guys are doing great work. kudos!
I agree with the past comments regarding the sections. I subscribe to the RSS feed with Google Reader but i recieve way too many articles to read through. I end up reading only 10-20 of the 50+ articles a day. I'm only interested in 2-3 of your sections. I end up just ignoring articles i would probably actually be interested in.
Otherwise I consider Treehugger.com my #1 site for green information - it's just that you have too much info for me to keep up on and would like to stall in touch with just the info that relates to me.
I have to unsubscribe because I don't have time to read 50+ articles a day, but I would love to some back if topic based or top articles of the day feeds are ever created. Thanks for doing a wonderful job! Hopefully smaller feeds will one day be available.
I agree strongly with the comments above - I am a big fan of Treehugger but I had to unsubscribe my feed since it was just too many posts per day, and it overwhelmed my other feeds.
Please introduce a category based feed system. I think that would be very useful to your readership.
Thank you!
Yes.
Don't want to cause cause aggravation but...
The web is already big enough to give one agoraphobia
So I would agree in sense at least, with the aggrieved -
It's agreat shame you don't offer section by section aggregation.
Yes.
Don't want to cause cause aggravation but...
The web is already big enough to give one agoraphobia
So I would agree in sense at least, with the aggrieved -
It's agreat shame you don't offer section by section aggregation.
I completely agree that TreeHugger really needs to provide RSS feeds per category. I unfortunately am also going to need to unsubscribe from TreeHugger now, after having subscribed for over two months. I really enjoy the posts in a couple categories, but if I am away for a few days then going through literally hundreds of irrelevant postings just says "delete all" to me. I'll make a note to come back to TreeHugger in the future to see if they have corrected this problem. It's a great site with a distribution problem that unfortunately ends up turning some folks off to it. It shouldn't be a 0%/100% model!
Thanks for hopefully improving this soon.
I'd like to add my voice to those requesting category specific feeds. I love the site, but don't have time to read everything. I'd be more likely to subscribe if I could filter my subscription by category. My particular interest is anything related to bicycling, and with a cycling-specific feed, I'd be a more frequent visitor.
Thanks for a fantastic site!
Thanks for the great work..