I hope so because RSS feeds are the simplest and fastest way to keep up with your favorite websites and blogs. May 1st has been marked by the blogosphere as RSS Awareness Day. Here is my contribution to the cause.
RSS: The short definition
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. - http://www.whatisrss.com/
For an entertaining plain English video explanation of RSS head over to: http://rssday.org/
The Benefits of Using RSS Feeds
- Instead of randomly visiting your favorite websites for updates, RSS tells you exactly when new content has been added. Saving you time and effort.
- RSS feeds allow you to check out headlines of articles so you can determine whether it’s worth reading a story or visiting the website.
- To visit or not to visit, that is the question. With RSS you can read all the content without even going to the actual website.
- Get all your sports news in one location. With the help of an RSS reader you can quickly check out ESPN.com, Philly.com and Hoops State of Mind all from the comfort of your homepage. Check out my basketball blogs page on Google:
Are you reaping the benefits of RSS feeds?
If you aren’t why not start by subscribing to your favorite basketball blog ; ) hint, hint. For the rest of you already taking advantage of this technology I assume you already grabbed our feed, right?
Welcome to Hoops State of Mind, a blog dedicated solely to hoops, hoops and more hoops.
Why are we starting Hoops State of Mind?
It can not be understated, we love basketball - period. We love watching, reading, writing, discussing and most importantly playing basketball. This blog is the perfect channel to fulfill many of those points.
We already have a sports blog that covers our local sports teams in Philly at The Recliner GM. But wanted to expand our overall basketball coverage when the Sixers and local college basketball teams aren’t playing without muddying up that blog.
Ok, so what will Hoops State of Mind be?
Basically, whatever random basketball thoughts that come to mind that we want to share. We are trying to add some variety. Hoops State of Mind posts will come in all shapes and sizes, be pretty random, more fun, less dense and conversational (the more comments the better).
With that said we do have some recurring items in mind that will pop up here and there. As you can see they all have obvious basketball flavor.
- Off the Glass - Thinking something like a basketball-related question or bouncing an idea off the readers.
- The Blackboard & The Pick-and-Roll - Talking strategy, highlight plays and analyze the statistics.
- Rebounds and Assists - Grab some interesting basketball links from the blogosphere and share. Get it - “rebounds” and “assists.”
- The Flagrant Foul - Criticism of any and everything bad that has happened recently in the game. Literally could just be a picture that expresses that sentiment.
- The Buzzer Beater - The opposite of The Flagrant Foul. Any and everything good that has happened recently in the game.
- The Shooter’s Roll - We like quotes so this is where we will share some of our favorite quotes about basketball from anywhere we can find them.
- A Fresh 24 - We don’t know what this one will be, but we like the term. So we are sure collectively we can come up with something good, right?
- The White Boy Report - Pete will talk more about this, but it (probably) won’t be as offensive as it sounds.
There you have it. Hoops, hoops and more hoops.
P.S.
What do you think of the logo and banner? Paintings courtesy of John Robertson at Street Credible Art.
