RSS and News Readers
If you are new to on-line news readers as a way of getting updates from your favorite sites, here’s a quick intro:
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for distributing and gathering content from sources across the Web, including newspapers, magazines, and blogs like this one. Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries.
You subscribe to a news feed by entering the feed’s URL into your reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.
Yahoo, Google (these links lead to their RSS pages) and others offer free browser-based readers that you bookmark just like you would a web page, and you can customize your reader to be updated whenever your favorite sites have a new posting.
Click on the orange “RSS” button and then choose your preferred news reader from the pull-down menu. Then go to the news reader site as part of your daily scanning for news. Recent updates will be listed for you to click on and read.
