Introducing RSS Feeds into your life
Imagine getting updates from your favorite web sites delivered directly into your mail inbox. No more having to visit those sites in your browser to find interesting articles. With RSS those “feeds” of information come to you. You “subscribe” to a feed and then get article summaries to view, almost like email messages. You decide if you want to visit that site or not. All you need is an RSS “reader” (and for Mac OS X users, one is already built in.)
So by now you may be asking, “what is RSS?” Most commonly it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a special format of XML (Extensible Markup Language) in which all the data is wrapped in tags. These tags allow the data to be understood very easily, which has allowed RSS to flourish worldwide.
For website owners who write content on their site, publishing RSS feeds can be just another path or channel to their site. And now, many CMS (Content Management Systems) and blog software have RSS feed publishing built in, so there’s nothing extra you as the site owner have to do. WordPress sites, for example, are some of the easiest ways to have RSS feeds running for all “posts,” or “news updates.”
Sound interesting? Let’s see how easy it is to subscribe to the HMAUS feed in my three step process.
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This post was written by markmcmahon on August 30, 2009
