What Is RSS? RSS Explained
RSS Primer: One Page Quick
Introduction to RSS
What is RSS?
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is 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 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
the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You
save
time by not needing to visit each site individually. The
number of
sites offering RSS
feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like
Yahoo News.
What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed? RSS Feed Readers
and News Aggregators
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.
A
variety of RSS Readers
are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers
include
Amphetadesk
(Windows, Linux, Mac),
FeedReader
(Windows), and
NewsGator
(Windows - integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of
web-based feed readers available.
My
Yahoo,
Bloglines,
and
Google Reader
are popular web-based feed readers.
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.
WhatIsRSS.com now has a blog ...
We have always wanted to keep this resource brief and to
the point, but we realise there is alot more that can be communicated
about using RSS. Our
RSS
Blog was launched 26 July 2007 to extend and complement the
information provided here. If you are interested in learning more about
RSS go there now and subscribe! It will be updated over time with
information on using RSS and will feature tools to help you use RSS in
new and better ways.
RSS Links: More information on RSS