I don't think it does anything. It's just that "following" is the current hip concept, largely due to Twitter. A while ago that concept was "friend" verbed. As in "I friended him". But now friending is so 5 mins ago.
You can get notifications of blogs you're following by going to your blogger account. Or you can add blogs you follow to your blog, then everyone can see where your tastes lie. I'm not sure if you can add the follow to places like your iGoogle page.
Subscribing seems to get you mail notifications, and RSS feed seem to give you nice little tabs at the top of your browser to see when fave are updated.
It's all too confusing...
I've set a couple of follows up, but I prefer the RSS feeds.
I don't think it does anything. It's just that "following" is the current hip concept, largely due to Twitter. A while ago that concept was "friend" verbed. As in "I friended him". But now friending is so 5 mins ago.
ReplyDeleteThe next hip concept will be one you can't talk about in polite society.
ReplyDeleteI thought you would get informed if there is a new post on the blog you are following. Does that happen?
ReplyDeleteYou can get notifications of blogs you're following by going to your blogger account. Or you can add blogs you follow to your blog, then everyone can see where your tastes lie. I'm not sure if you can add the follow to places like your iGoogle page.
ReplyDeleteSubscribing seems to get you mail notifications, and RSS feed seem to give you nice little tabs at the top of your browser to see when fave are updated.
It's all too confusing...
I've set a couple of follows up, but I prefer the RSS feeds.
"Follow" means that you see the latest posts showing up on your "Dashboard" startup blog page when you sign in.
ReplyDeleteThat's it then, I never use the Dashboard page, I just have a bookmark for New Post and one for the blog itself.
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