What is RSS

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.


RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.



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Pages on setting up RSS feeds anyone?
Tom

RSS is about to follow someone feed for future .

RSS feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically.

RSS is a better way to be notified of new and changed content .Notifications of changes to multiple websites are handled easily.Producing an RSS feed is very simple and hundreds of thousands of websites now provide this feature.