RSS explained

What is RSS?

Here you will get RSS explained in a really simple way.

You have probably seen the orange RSS or XML buttons on different sites, and wondered what they are for.

RSS means “Really Simple Syndication”. That probably says you nothing, but don’t worry. RSS is just a very simple way of letting me or others who are publishing RSS feeds communicate with you.

It is simpler than email, because you do not have to go to your inbox and open your mail. Your RSS reader gets the message, when I have made new pages or updates, and you can choose if you want to read them or not.

What your advantage is as an end user is that you are totally in control of the feeds you are subscribing to.

Spam is eliminated because you are not giving anyone your email address. You can look at it like an “Active Bookmark”, a bookmark that tells you when there is something new.

The ones who apply this technology on a big scale are news channels like CNN and BBC, which publishes news feeds in many different categories.

The way it goes is like this:

You first need to get an RSS reader, and I will provide you with some links where you can download this for free.

Into this reader you put addresses of the RSS feeds you want to subscribe to. When you visit a site you like and you see the little orange button saying RSS or XML, you simply right click (MAC users = control-click) on it and select “Copy Shortcut” (MAC users="Copy Link to Clipboard") and paste that shortcut into your RSS reader.

That is all there is to it.

You can as easily unsubscribe by deleting the feed from you RSS reader.

Windows -- RssReader www.rssreader.com

Mac -- NetNewsWire www.ranchero.com/netnewswire

After you have done that, you can start by adding this feed into your RSS reader.

Right click, copy shortcut, and paste it into your RSS reader!

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