Are you following several websites and discussions?
Is it getting a little tedious to remember where all your sites are?
What about the mix of frequently and infrequently updated sites? RSS might be a simple solution.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is nothing more than a different, standardized format for the web content that you already enjoy. Most sites that feature frequently updated content will have and RSS feed and its usually indicated by an icon similar to this: ) You might also see them refer to RSS as their “feed” or “channel”.
To see this site’s RSS feed, click here or the Orange RSS icon above.
You probably have access to several feed readers or “aggregators” as they are sometimes called. When you clicked on this site’s link above, depending on the web browser that you use, you saw the quickest to use and setup. Internet Explorer, FireFox and others do a great job with RSS feed aggregation, but there are better ways still to manage them. In some future articles, I’ll mention a few of these.
