What is an RSS Feed Anyway?

What is an RSS Feed Anyway?

I doubt I am in the minority today when I say I use and rely on the internet regularly throughout the day. Going online to find my news, weather, and entertainment has become the primary method in which I stay current in my work and personal life. There’s never enough time keep current with the web content I’m interested in.

Ente r RSS
RSS is a technology that has quickly become mainstream, which facilitates content finding me. A friend of mine introduced me to RSS about a year ago and I am wondering how I ever lived without them!

What is RSS?
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or, more commonly, Really Simple Syndication. What RSS does is an important development in Internet history – RSS frees you from time-wasting surfing ways by enabling web content publishers to “push” you any content you designate as desired.

Customized Content Direct to Your Desktop
News, information, podcasts, and video are directly delivered to your desktop when new content is created. Think of it as website editor’s emailing you your browser bookmarks on a regular basis.

Getting Setup with RSS is Simple.
One just needs to decide on which RSS reader to use and start setting up their “feeds.” A feed is simply a subscription to a website that supports RSS and an RSS reader is a program that you use to setup and organize your RSS feeds in one place. I used a free and very popular RSS reader called Google Reader. You can choose to add your RSS feeds to Google Reader or your Google Home Page.

Setting Up Google Reader
Just click on this link and it will walk you through the simple instructions. Google Reader

Subscriptions
First you set up the RSS feeds you are interested in subscribing to. Anyone familiar with a typical email client will find most RSS readers easy to use. All feeds (and folders containing them) are on the left of the screen while the text from the RSS feeds is in the center of the page. Once you have your feeds set up, you can go to just one page to see all of your current and updated RSS feeds.

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