What is RSS?

RSS (Rich Site Summary) a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

Why Use RSS?

RSS Feeds allow you to stay informed by retrieving content from the websites you are interested in and help save time since you don't have to visit each site individually. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is very large and growing constantly, and most majoy news websites now offer onr or more RSS feeds

How do I use an RSS Feed?

An RSS Feed Reader or News Aggregator allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read.

There are a number of different RSS Readers are available on Mac, Windows, and Linux. There are also several web-based RSS Feed readers such as My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader.

Once you have an RSS 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.