What is RSS?
RSS is a feed that provide headlines and a corresponding summary that is automatically updated as new information is published to a web site.
“There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.” Watch this brief video from Common Craft that explains what RSS is and how it works.
Subscribing to a Feed
In order to subscribe to a feed you will need to have a feed reader, often called an aggregator. Some popular readers include:
| Browser-based Readers | Web-Based Readers | |
| Your web browser may already have the ability to read RSS feeds using Live Bookmarks | Using a web-based reader has the advantage of allowing you to read the latest feeds at any computer. |
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*Please see Wikipedia’s entry on aggregators for a full list of desktop and Web based readers.
Further Reading
