Following Local Sports


If you're always on the lookout for local sporting events and news, then there's no better way to keep a tack of them than using the web and its various programs and connective abilities to your advantage. Whether you're a PC newbie or you're an expert who's offering tech advice to a friend on IM while playing party poker and chatting to relatives on Skype, it's possible to keep up very easily with the right tactics.

First of all, get yourself two clients - one for RSS and one for Twitter. The reason for this is that feeds are quite often one of the best sources of information available to you, as they allow you to collate all your incoming information into one area so you're not darting between several programs and websites just to find everything you want to read.

The RSS feed is your article source - it downloads the articles from websites you choose themselves into a "feed" - or list of articles - and then allows you to read them as you would emails in an inbox. Mark some as read, some as unread (depending on the client) and work your way through at your own pace. Of course, it's just the barebones text (and sometimes images), but it'll allow you to get the information downloaded and ready.

The Twitter feed allows you to follow individual accounts and shows them as a feed of updates posted by those accounts, all mixed in together and ordered chronologically. Following local sports personalities and team accounts means you can have all the updates as they're posted, and in a short, concise 140-character format.

Last but not least - subscribe to newsletters! Some people avoid them to keep their inbox clear, but if it's something you're genuinely interested in, there's no reason not to subscribe! So keep reading, make use of the tips we've given and we hope to read your own local sports thoughts and news soon, if that's on your agenda. Happy reading!