Subscribing to Mad Mariner RSS Feeds

You can get Mad Mariner articles, news and blogs sent to you regularly using a simple technology known as RSS. If you are already as RSS user, simply click the links below to add them to your reader. If you would like to get started, read this page to learn more about RSS and setup your own free reader with your own set of subscriptions.

Mad Mariner currently offers several feeds, with more coming all the time. These feeds currently are:

Mad Mariner Articles are magazine-length stories produced by our staff. These are the same stories published on the home page each day, and the feed gives you each story exactly as it appears on the site. You will be able to read the story for free on the day it is published. To read it thereafter will require a Free Trial Registration or an annual Subscription.

Mad Mariner News is marine news produced by the Associated Press that appears daily on the site. The feed gives you each story as it appears and the stories can be read for free at all times.

Mad Mariner Blogs are blog posts produced by Mad Mariner bloggers (columnists), most of whom write weekly. The feed contains posts from all Mad Mariner bloggers and the posts can be read for free at all times.

Mad Mariner's Twitter Feed is also available, which provides the headlines we post on the social networking site Twitter. It is a mix of articles, news, blogs and extra stuff. 

What is RSS?

RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, is a lightweight XML format designed to share text and other Web content. It is used by computer programs to organize this content for easy reading, presenting it in a way that makes it simple to see when there is new material available, or when material has been updated.

Many news and hobby sites–including Mad Mariner–make an RSS Feed available (you can tell these sites because they typically carry an easily-identified orange symbol with the letters RSS). Readers then pick up this feed with special–usually free–software called a Feed Reader or Aggregator, which checks RSS-enabled websites for you and displays what it finds.

Depending on the source, RSS will deliver the entire text of the story to your newsreader, or just the first paragraph or headline. Clicking on that headline will take you straight to the full story via your web browser.

How to Use RSS

The only thing you need to do to start using RSS is to obtain a Feed Reader–and they usually come free. Many readers are available, either as stand-alone programs, extensions to existing programs (such as a plug-in for your web browser), or as web-based applications. Web-based readers don't require you to download or install any software. Instead, you simply log in from any computer with Web access and check your feeds.

One popular web-based reader is offered by Google at no charge. To sign up, click here. For a Wikipedia list of other available readers, click here.

Once you make a selection, follow the instructions to setup your reader. When you are finished, you can subscribe to any of the Mad Mariner RSS feeds. This usually involves copying the URL, or web address, of the feed, which you can do below.

Article Feed: http://madmariner.com/article/rss/feed

News Feed: http://madmariner.com/news/rss/feed

Blog Feed: http://madmariner.com/blog/rss/feed

Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/14838850.rss

Once you copy the URL, follow the instructions offered by your particular newsreader and paste the feed into the proper location. And that's it! Your Mad Mariner feed will automatically update every time we post something new. If you have any questions or require assistance, use our Contact Page and we will reply as quickly as we can.