About RSS
What does RSS stand for?
"RSS" is short for "Really Simple Syndication".
It is a new way of distributing information over the
internet.
What can it do?
RSS let's you easily keep informed about the sites you are
interested in by notifying you of site content updates. You save time
because you don't have to visit each site to check for new
content - it comes to you! The updated content information comes
in a brief summary paragraph.
You also protect your privacy, by not
having to give out your email to join a website's
newsletter. You won't need all those bookmarks in your
favorites either!
How to start...
You will need an RSS Reader which you can download from a
number of sites (this
reminds me of the days when we all had to download Adobe
Reader!). Here are a couple of free RSS readers:
www.rssreader.com
www.feedreader.com
If you don't want to use
this method you can use the automatic RSS feature on sites
like My Yahoo or MSN.
RSS Reader - an example:
Below is a screenshot of a news reader showing the 'Let's Go
Walking' content update description. If you want to read the
full article you simply click on the link to visit the page.
Adding a website to your reader:
- When you
have installed your news reader simply
Right-click (Control-click for Mac users) on the orange RSS
(sometimes they are called XML) button on a website that
interests you.
- Click on your RSS Reader icon to open it
- Then select
Copy Shortcut from the drop-down menu and paste
that URL into your RSS Reader.
More information:
It's hard to find a simple explanation of Really Simple
Syndication!
Here are a couple links if you want to learn more...
http://www.i-together.net/weaverluke/2005/03/non-technical-readers-guide-to-rss.html
http://rss.softwaregarden.com/aboutrss.html
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