What is RSS?
Posted in Kewl Stuff on Oct 29th, 2008
You can find a detailed article about RSS here. I’ll put is as simply as I can. RSS feeds deliver the content of your website, in a streamlined, abbreviated form, to a “reader”. The reader is just a web page that receives and displays RSS feeds. You can see the feeds from various different websites in your reader. There are many different readers. If you have a google account you automatically have the google reader as part of your account. The purpose of all this is simple: By going to one web page (your reader) you can see what is new or going on with multiple web sites (if they are RSS enabled) via the RSS feeds sent to the reader. Keep in mind you have to suscribe to the RSS feed in order to receive the feed. This is a simple process. Usually you just click on the RSS icon and then you click on the button of the reader you like to use.
This allows you to keep track of all your favorite web sites without having to actually visit them all. RSS will let you know if there is new content and what that content is. If there is nothing new then you don’t waste time visiting the site. If there is something new but it doesn’t interest you, again, it saves you the time and trouble of visiting the site. If you have a lot of websites that you visit on a regular basis this is very efficient way of managing your time.
Feedburner is a service that was recently purchased by Google. Feedburner takes RSS feeds and makes them look nicer and allows you to customize your feed. Feedburner is free and well worth your time.
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