What are the feeds (poetry, prose and humour) and how can I get them?

These feeds are xml files, which I regularly update with my latest work. So rather than having to check back to this web site, you can subscribe to one or all of the feeds and thus get alerted to new material automatically. All you need is to bookmark my feed within a feed reader, and away you go.

Feed Reader is a very good and free piece of software to install on your PC (Windows 2000 or newer). Alternatively, some web browsers have inbuilt RSS readers, or you can create an account with one of the many free online readers, such as Google Reader, Pageflakes or a whole host more.

I'm using Feedburner to ease the subscription to the feed. When you click on any of my feeds under "Keep in touch" on this site you are taken through to feedburner.com where you see a preview of the feed's content and the icons of many popular feed readers. Click on your favourite reader to add my feed(s) to your collection.

Alternatively, you can always cut and paste the URL of my feeds into your feed reader manually:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PoemsByPatrickMackeown for the Poetry Feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ProseByPatrickMackeown for the Prose Feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/HumourByPatrickMackeown for the Humour Feed

The technology behind this feed is called "RSS" (really simple syndication). The feed files in essence structure information in a standard way, so that the output can be read in feed reader software or be reproduced on another web site. This technology allows you to create your personal collection of articles and news items. Feed reading is neither like web browsing nor like reading email newsletters, the experience combines the best aspects of both.

How to bookmark BookScape?

Rather than bookmarking your favourite sites in your browser, why not use one of the many bookmarking sites instead? The advantage of keeping all your bookmarks on a web page is that you can access them wherever you are. Many of these bookmarking sites also allow you to share your bookmarks with nominated people or the world. They also tend to encourage you to add your own tags to your bookmarks as a way to categorise sites. Visitors to the bookmarking site can search by tag and thus finds sites that have been deemed relevant for that keyword by other users.

To bookmark BookScape using a web site you usually have to create an account there first. Then enter www.bookscape.co.uk in your list of favourite sites. You may want to consider literature, poetry, thrillers, comedy, short stories, writing, and entertainment as tags to describe BookScape.

Here are a few such bookmarking sites:
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Blinklist
Shadows
Spurl
Simpy
Ma.gnolia