Frequently Asked Questions
Free Subscriptions via RSS
Free Subscriptions via RSS
Question
- How do I receive your RSS news feed?
- May I integrate your ski news into my web page?
- What is RSS?
- I'd rather get your news via email, but you no longer offer an email subscription service. Can I still do that?
- How do I add your feed to iGoogle? (or My Yahoo! or Newsgator or myAOL or Bloglines or...)
Answer
How do I receive your RSS news feed?
Enter the following address in the RSS/news aggregator of your choice:
http://feedproxy.google.com/firsttracksonline/pDno
If you're using the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, you have a standalone RSS aggregator already built into Windows. Simply visit http://feedproxy.google.com/firsttracksonline/pDno or click on the little orange RSS icon 
in the Internet Explorer browser toolbar. On the resulting page you'll see a "Subscribe to this feed" link. That saves First Tracks!! Online to your news feeds in your Favorites center, accessible by clicking the star in the toolbar or by typing Alt+C. By clicking on "View feed properties" you can select the frequency at which Internet Explorer checks for new stories.
Note that this is a new feature of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 -- versions 6 and earlier do not have this feature. Click here if you wish to upgrade.
Firefox users can use the browser's Live Bookmarks feature to enable RSS delivery - click on the little orange RSS icon in the address bar to add the Live Bookmark to the bookmarks folder of your choosing. The latest First Tracks!! Online stories will then always be available expanded from that bookmark. For frequent readers, you can even save it to your Bookmarks Toolbar for quick and easy access.
For email client software, users of Microsoft Outlook can use Attensa for Outlook to receive RSS content right in Outlook. Users of Mozilla Thunderbird will find RSS functionality built right into their email client.
Web-based aggregators include such familiar sites as My Yahoo!, My MSN and Google News as well as specific news aggregators such as Bloglines and Newsgator.
For simple buttons to add First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine news stories to popular web-based aggregaors, click here.
May I integrate your ski news into my web page?
Yes, you may. We maintain the copyright on all of our material and therefore ask that you:
- not alter our feed in any way;
- reprint only that portion of our news stories that's released in the feed -- link to the full article;
- do not use our feed on any website which promotes pornography, hate speech, or other illegal or offensive content or activity; and
- credit "First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine" as the news source.
We reserve the right to rescind permission to use our feed in situations that violate these terms, or where it is used in an inappropriate manner.
We'd love to see the results! Contact webmaster(at)FirstTracksOnline.com and let us know where to view your integration.
RSS stands for "really simple syndication." In short, it's a way to get our news delivered right to you. You read RSS news via a news aggregator. There are numerous aggregators available both as a stand-alone client and web-based. Click here to read specific instructions on how to receive our news via RSS -- chances are that you already have an RSS aggregator installed on your computer! If you'd rather receive RSS stories via email, and you don't already have an aggregator and don't feel like installing any new software, see the answer to this FAQ qestion. To learn more about RSS, visit here.
Of course, albeit in a slightly different way than you may be used to. There are several free RSS-to-email services available, among them RssFwd, Rmail and FeedBlitz. Simply enter the address of our RSS feed (http://feedproxy.google.com/firsttracksonline/pDno) and your email address, and you'll receive our news stories in your email inbox. To use Google's FeedBurner to subscribe to our news stories via email, use the subscription form below:
How do I add your feed to iGoogle? (or My Yahoo! or Newsgator or myAOL or Bloglines or...)
Simply scroll down to click on the button of your choice at the very bottom of this page.
