How do I subscribe to an RSS feed?
Author: Sam Roberts What is an RSS feed? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (although versions before RSS 2.0 have been known by other names). In simple terms, an RSS feed is a system that allows web content to be put into a standard format for viewing through an RSS feed reader. It allows the user to save time and effort by viewing recent content from many different websites, without having to visit the sites in question. How do I subscribe to a feed? Now that you know about a bit about what you’re getting into, the first thing you need to do is find a feed to subscribe to. All the major news sites have these now, as do many other websites that are updated on a regular basis. They will often be marked with an orange badge, to make them easy to locate on busy web pages. If you click on the feed icon, you’ll probably just get a page full of code, and it won’t make all that much sense. RSS feeds are simply xml web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people. In order
This is a wonderful question, because it’s one I have heard time and again from people. So let’s have a stab at this. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s basically a computer-readable summary of the content of a Web page. This summary might be just the headlines of the articles on the page, the headlines plus a sentence or two excerpt of the articles, or even the headlines plus the entire articles. These are known as “headline only”, “headline + excerpt” and “full text” feeds, respectively. There are, of course, nuances, because RSS is now used for a lot more than just Web pages comprised of a set of articles (e.g., weblogs). For example, the New York Times has a set of RSS feeds that let you subscribe to just the movie reviews or just their business news. Typically, you recognize an RSS feed because there’s a cute little orange or blue button labeled “XML”, “RDF” or “RSS”. To subscribe to the::unwired’s RSS feed, just check the “Feeds and Syndication” box in the right co
