What is RSS?
 
 

 

 

What is RSS?

Why use RSS?

How to use RSS?

A list of RSS readers

Video Instruction on how to use RSS

Additional RSS Resources

Subscribe to Lucia Messeguer's RSS feed

 

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication.  RSS refers to a group of web feed formats used to publish updates to blogs or websites.  The RSS feed contains the updates from the blog or website.

With RSS feeds you can keep up with changes on your favorite sites or blogs without having to visit them.  The changes are sent to you.

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Why use RSS?

Using RSS feeds saves you time and energy because it allow you to track changes to  many websites and blogs without having to go to each of the sites numerous times to see if any new changes have occured.

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How to use RSS?

To receive RSS feeds you need a RSS reader; also called a "feed reader".  Just like you need an email application to receive and read emails, you need the RSS feed reader to receive and read RSS feeds.

When a website has a RSS feed, a RSS icon is usually present on the page:

    

Once you have the RSS feed (it is like a URL) you can add it to your RSS feed reader (see videos below for more specific details ).

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A list of RSS readers

Web-Based RSS readers:

Desktop RSS readers

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Video Instruction on how to use RSS

Below are several useful videos that explain what is a RSS feed and how to use RSS feed readers.



                    VideoJug: How To Use RSS Feeds

 


 

    VideoJug: Practical RSS: Introduction To RSS - Episode 1

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Additional Resources

Wikepedia RSS Entry

Wikipedia on aggregators (feed readers)

RSS Specifications (more technical details on RSS)

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Subscribe to Lucia Messeguer's blog RSS feed

This site has a RSS feed you can subscribe to.  The RSS feed will cover updates to the luciamesseguer.com website.  In addition, news and events,  like upcoming exhibitions of  Lucia's fine art black and white photographic work, will be added.

You can visit her blog here 

 

To subscribe to the RSS feed, copy and paste the RSS feed link below to your RSS reader.

Subscribe to her RSS feed  

                         http://lmesseguer.wordpress.com/feed/


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