RSS

What is RSS?

RSS stands for "Really Simple Sindication" (among other things, but this definition will suffice for this site). Basically, RSS is a system that users can subscribe to and get "news" about the pages that they have subscribed to. In other words, if you subscribe to the New York Times via RSS, every time a new article is published on their web page, you will be notified via RSS, given a summary of the article, and a link you can follow to read the article. The advantage to using RSS is that whenever I update my site, instead of having to send out mass emails, anyone who has subscribed to my site can see the update. I don't even have to know the person. It makes life easier for everybody, honest.

How do I use RSS?

There are a number of ways to use RSS. The most popular way is by using what is called a "feed reader" or "news aggregator" which aggregates any feeds that you subscribe to into an easy-to-read format. Such applications include Google Reader, BlogLines, and Feed Demon, as well as many more. Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird email clients also support RSS, as does Yahoo mail. Also, many modern web browsers, such as Firfox 3 and Internet Explorer 8, have built-in RSS feed agregation, which you can read about on their respective websites. More information regarding RSS can be found online at http://www.whatisrss.com/.

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