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What is RSS?

By Cari Haus On February 26, 2009 Under Water Cooler

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 should I use RSS?

If you regularly surf the web and want to stay informed by retrieving content from sites you are interested in, RSS feeds are the tool for you. RSS feeds allow you to save time by not having to visit each site individually. RSS feeds also help to maintain privacy and prevent e-mail clutter, by allowing you to receive updates without joining each site’s e-mail newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names.

What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed?

You need an RSS feed reader or news aggregator to read an RSS feed. Thes tools allow you to grab RSS feeds from various sites and easily display them.

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 you like that provide syndicated content. (Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available). Add the RSS feeds for those sites to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks.

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