What is RSS?

What is RSS?
Instead of visiting many different websites to check for news, the news from all these different sources can now come to you.

RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'. A news feed is usually generated by the same sources that you would normally visit on the web to get your news. The news can then be checked by software and automatically brought to you.

How do I start using RSS feeds?
In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. All allow you to display and subscribe to the RSS feeds you are interested in.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want. For example, if you would like the latest news from a given news source, simply visit the website of the news source and you will notice an RSS button ().

If you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.

Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, have functionality which automatically picks up RSS feeds for you. For more details on these, please check their websites.

NEWS READERS

Windows	Mac OS X	Web
Newz Crawler	Newsfire	Bloglines
FeedDemon	NetNewsWire	My Yahoo!
Awasu
Other News Readers (Google)

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