What is RSS?

1. What are RSS feeds?

2. What can I do with RSS feeds?

3. How do I use feeds?

1. What are feeds?

In a world heaving under the virtual weight of billions of web pages, keeping up with websites can be a chore. RSS feeds let you keep up to date with the latest info on all your favourite sites without having to take the trouble to visit them. In effect, bits of their sites come to you instead.

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2. What can I do with feeds?

• a way of subscribing to feeds – pointing to the location, like a website address, where all the up-to-date feed content will be available
• a way of displaying all the feeds you have subscribed to
• a way of telling you which feeds have new content in them
• a way of following links back to the full content on the website

Read more at BBC or at rss-specifications: How News Aggregators / RSS Readers Work

3. How do I use feeds?

2. Surf the web, or use Feed Factory to find an RSS feed you are interested in subscribing to.

3. Subscribe to the feed - this works differently for different readers. You might be able to drag and drop the orange RSS button to your reader. Or another way is to copy the address of the feed from your browser's Address bar. Paste this into your reader. (You may need to set up a new feed (sometimes called a 'channel' first.) Most readers that are available will have specific help sections for their own products - refer to this is you get stuck.

4. Check your feed reader regularly to see if there is any new or interesting content.

5. When you find something you want to know more about click the link in the reader to go straight to the page in your browser.

6. And that's it! Of course, you can repeat the subscription step for all the other feeds you are interested in.

Read more at BBC or at rss-specifications

Get started - Enjoy the news!