What is RSS?
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a format for delivering
regularly changing web content to users. Many news-related
sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate
their content as an RSS Feed to whoever
wants it. In essence, the feeds themselves are just
web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than
people. A program known as a feed reader or aggregator
can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display
any updated articles that it finds.
Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web.
It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving
summaries of the latest content from the sites you are
interested in. You save time by not needing to visit
each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by
not needing to join each site's email newsletter.
What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed?
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software
allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and
display them for you to read and use.
Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your
RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable
applications let you store them on your main computer,
in the same way that you either download your e-mail
using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like
Hotmail.
A variety of RSS Readers are available for different
platforms. Some popular feed readers include Newsfire
(Mac), FeedReader
(Windows), and NewsGator
(Windows - integrates with Outlook) and Google
Reader (Web based).
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding
sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed
to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites
display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or
RDF to let you know a feed is available.
Subscribe to this feed
You can subscribe to this RSS feed in a number of ways, including the following:
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