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Marine Industry.org RSS Service

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With the Marine Industry.org RSS Service you can take your preferred parts of this unique coverage, free of charge and incorporate them into your preferred RSS newsreaders or website.

What is RSS?

RSS is commonly defined as ’Really Simple Syndication’ and is a method of sites such as this one, syndicating their content to their users to read within a RSS newsreader or on a website.

RSS uses a standard format which allows you to use RSS newsreaders to aggregate more than one feed from different sites. Effectively, it allows you to pick and choose information from different sites to build your own custom news feed, specific to your individual area of interest.

Viewing RSS Feeds

RSS Readers (e.g. www.newsgator.com, a list within DMOZ directory), allow you to take our coverage along with articles from your other favorite sites to be displayed in one continuous list within your newsreader or website.

You can click on any interesting stories to go through to the site and read the article in full. Effectively, an RSS feed is the perfect way to stay current with updates on many sites at a glance! Best of all, most RSS readers are free!

It is also possible to incorporate RSS feeds into your own website or weblog. It is a condition of incorporating RSS feeds on your website that you agree to comply with the Terms and Conditions of Use. Click here to view in full.

Please provide attribution to MarineIndustry.org in relation to the RSS feeds either in text form: "MarineIndustry.org" or by placing a Badge on your website found on the lower right of the home page.

Adding the Marine Industry.org RSS Service to your reader or website

You need to add the Marine Industry.org RSS Service to your computer. To do this simply go to the bottom right corner of the home page and click the subscription of your choice.

WHAT IS A BLOG verses a forum/discussion...

There appears to be some confusion on the difference between forum / discussions and blogs. In
general, a forum/discussion is intended for two way conversations and/or questions and a blog can be thought of as more of a one way
journal that can be commented on.

A blog (short for weblog) is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for
general public consumption. They are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of
events, or other material such as graphics or video. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of entries posted to a single
page in reverse-chronological order. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or reflect the purpose of the Web site
that hosts the blog.

Topics sometimes include brief philosophical musings, commentary on Internet and other social issues, and links
to other sites the author favors, especially those that support a point being made on a post. The author of a blog is often referred
to as a blogger. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online
diaries.

A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability
for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual,
although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio
(podcasting), which are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of
blogs with very short posts. Please email a question to me directly at jim@topnotchmarine.com.

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