What is RSS? RSS stands for both Rich Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication but it always refers to the same technology. It is a mean of transmitting and updating news in an automated way. Most news sites (including virtually all blogs) will publish what is called an RSS feed which is regularly updated with the latest available headlines and/or articles. The RSS feed is not human readable. It is in a format which is designed to be read by machines rather than humans. Reading RSS To take advantage of an RSS feed you would use a piece of software called an RSS aggregator. Most of them are very similar to email client programs, but instead of incoming emails, they display news from various sources (from all the feeds you have registered with, or "subscribed to" as is commonly said but it has nothing to do with money). Unread news typically appear in bold, just as unread emails do. An RSS aggregator makes it very convenient to follow up on news from a large number of sources in a single place. Just like there is webmail, there are also are web-RSS-aggregators like Google Reader which allows you to view multiple feeds on 1 webpage - http://reader.google.com. Also, most modern web browsers will also handle RSS feeds, but in a limited manner. They will use an RSS feed as a dynamic bookmark folder with automatic bookmarks to all the news in the feed. Unlike aggregators, browsers will not save the news if you don't check on them every day. For Faded Footsteps.com The links on the right are links to subscribe to the RSS Feed for this site, once subscribed you will see the latest memories posted to the site automatically in your news reader of choice. |
