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What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a
web feed technology
that allows you to receive short notifications of new information from
many different web sites through a single user interface. This eliminates
the need to visit each site individually or refresh pages to check for
new information or changes, which saves a lot of time.
Web Feed Readers
There are literally dozens of readers for RSS feeds. There are some that
are designed specifically for the purpose and are really slick. Many
mail readers have RSS support built-in or as add-ons. Web-based RSS
readers are useful if you want to be able to read your feeds from many
different computers. Here is just a sample:
- Thunderbird
mail reader has RSS support built-in.
- Microsoft Office Outlook
mail reader has RSS support built-in.
- Mail in Mac OS X has RSS support built-in.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has RSS support built-in. IE6 does not.
- Flock. Client-based reader for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
- Firefox offers to convert RSS items to "Active Bookmarks", which aren't very useful. Try one of the add-ons, instead.
- Brief 1.2 add-on for Firefox. Browser-based reader, requires Firefox 3.
- Google Reader. Web-based reader. Minor annoyance: Google Reader ignores the publication dates on individual articles and sorts by the publication date of the entire feed.
- Bloglines. Web-based reader. Major annoyance: Refreshes feeds with low readership only about once a day. Worse, they don't give you a refresh button. That tends to defeat the purpose of
subscribing to a web feed.
More Info
- Web Feed (Wikipedia)
- What Is RSS? A video introduction to RSS, produced by the Peoria Unified School District, distributed through Google Video. About 10 minutes. Requires Flash viewer.