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What is an RSS Feed?
Essentially, an RSS feed is a summary a webpage. You can subscribe to this summary for free using your computer. Once subscribed, you'll be alerted whenever that webpage is updated.
Using RSS allows you to check tens, hundreds, even thousands of web pages automatically. Instead of looking at each page one at a time, you get your computer to do it and report back with what's new.
Subscribing to RSS feeds is great for pages that are frequently updated such as blogs, galleries, or news pages. Checking every site to see if there’s new content could take hours. With RSS it takes seconds.
RSS documents are also known as a "feeds", "web feeds", "channels" or "live bookmarks". RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
Why use RSS?
Many internet users regularly visit many favourite news or blog sites, but if there is nothing new there it can feel like a waste of time. RSS turns the browsing process around so new content comes straight to you, keeping you updated automatically.
It also helps you keep track of interesting websites that you might otherwise forget to go back to.
How do I subscribe to an RSS feed
Users can view the content of the RSS feeds using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader" or an "aggregator".
There are many different versions of RSS readers, some of which are accessed using a browser while others are downloadable applications.
Users can subscribe to a RSS feed by entering the RSS feed's web address into the reader or by clicking orange RSS icon in their browser (known as chicklets), which initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader does all the work of checking the user's subscribed feeds for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.
Where can I get an RSS reader?
For a downloadable RSS feed reader try Feedreader.
If you'd prefer to subscribe online, try Google Reader.
