Importance of RSS

Published by witter | February 16, 2012 | | 12

If you have been online for quite some time and have been to blog websites, you probably have seen or heard something called ?RSS.? If you are like me when I first began blogging online, I had no idea what an ?RSS? was or how useful it was. I am going to explain those questions and how you can apply it.

Let?s begin by defining what an RSS is. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. I have been using RSS for about half a year now. I discovered the use for RSS while using Firefox, a browser alternative to Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.

The reason I use Firefox is because it makes using RSS very simple. They have made it so that everytime you visit a webpage that uses RSS, it shows you a small orange symbol in the address bar. When you notice the symbol, you can click on it which will give you the option to add a bookmark. Bookmarking allows for you to directly link to the RSS file or an XML file, which are a condensed version of the website that you just bookmarked. These RSS file are also commonly known as ?feeds.?

Firefox makes it so that you can read these RSS files without any 3rd party software or application. The feed will show a folder with bunch of links that are the articles from the RSS feed extracted from the website you bookmarked or subscribed to.

To use more advanced technique, you can install a ?RSS reader? to get more feed reading features. Firefox has an RSS reader extension called Sage, which you can download from their home page.

You can use other RSS reader from Google online, but I rather use browser interface RSS reader. It?s just preference and you can experiment with both and see which one you prefer.

If you do not want to use Firefox or if you are just use to other browsers, you can still subscribe to an RSS or XML feed by locating the small orange button anywhere on the site. These small orange icons usually stand for the RSS feed for that site.

There are RSS feeds used for Podcasts and Videocasts also. These are similar to internet radio or TV program that you can subscribe to and listen on a portable media playing devices. When you subscribe to one of these through iTunes, it will automatically update and? download the file and load it on your playlist. You can go to Podfeeder.com and use these feeds to load on other audio programs besides iTunes.

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