What is an RSS feed?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication It allows information to be published in a standard XML format that can be access via a Web address.

What are RSS newsfeeds used for?

RSS is used by (among other things) news Web sites, weblogs, schools, and podcasting. Web feeds provide web content together with links to the full versions of the content.

RSS Readers to display the News

Browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and Microsofts Internet Explorer 7 have integrated support for RSS feeds.

Sources of many more RSS newsfeeds

Use Feedfinder to search by keyword (football, microsoft security, recipes, etc.) or by URL (cnet.com, itu.int, microsoft.com, etc.) or a combination of the two (amazon.com books) in order to find feeds on that topic or by that organization. There are also search engines for content published via web feeds like Feedster or Blogdigger.

How do I find RSS newsfeeds?

Look for this or RSS feed pictograms in news pages of websites, for example Yahoo! news or BBC news and add them to your reader. On Web pages, web feeds (RSS or Atom) are typically linked with the word "Subscribe", an orange rectangle, , or with just the letters RSS. Many news aggregators such as My Yahoo! publish subscription buttons () for use on Web pages to simplify the process of adding news feeds.

What does RSS code look like?

If you click an RSS link, you may see XML (or extensible Markup Language) code in your browser. This is to be expected, since you are not meant to view the raw RSS feed in a browser window To view the headlines, add the feed to an RSS news reader, or to a browser that supports RSS feeds

RSS format specifications

RSS 2.0 is offered by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. RSS 2.0 is offered by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.One of the first uses of XML syndication format was for a news weblog, which was introduced in 1997.   In July, 2003, Winer and Userland Software assigned ownership of the RSS 2.0 specification to his then workplace, Harvards Berkman Center for the Internet & Society

RSS Feeds on this Web site

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RSS Webmaster Resources

The are webmaster resources to create and display RSS Feeds for Podcasting, Webpages, and Web Tickers.