WHAT IS RSS?
Posted by: Brian Webb | Sunday, September 9th, 2007 | 10:31 PM
This post is not for the savvy bloggers and internet gurus of our audience. While RSS has been available since 1999, a significant number of web users still don’t know what it is. This post is to the portion of our audience that isn’t quite comfortable yet with RSS.
In short, RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” RSS is simply a format used to publish frequently updated content; such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a “feed”, “web feed”, or “channel”, contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for you to keep up with your favorite websites in an automated manner that’s easier than checking them manually.
For example… towards the top of the right-hand column of this blog, you’ll notice two buttons with the orange RSS logo. One is titled “Subscribe to Entries RSS” and the other is titled “Subscribe to Comments RSS.” To subscibe to the entries of this blog using RSS, you would click the button titled “Subscribe to Entries RSS” and bookmark that new page in your web browser. To subscribe to the comments portion of this blog, you would click the button titled “Subscribe to Comments RSS” and bookmark that new page in your web browser.
I hope you’ll subscribe to my RSS feeds, and stay up to date with all that’s happening.
