The easy way to get your news and web updates
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and allows users to subscribe to multiple websites and have new content delivered automatically in one location, called an RSS reader or aggregator. Instead of visiting each website to check for new information, you simply check your reader, which has collected and organized the new content using RSS. When you set up an RSS reader and subscribe to content (feeds) of choice, you are creating customized information you want to read be it news, blog posts, journal articles, book and movie reviews, images, podcasts, etc.
There are a number of different readers available; we will use ‘Google Reader’, a free, simple, browser-based reader. You can then visit a website you like, click the RSS feed/subscription link (which is often indicated by the icon above and add or paste the URL into your reader. Then, you visit your reader anytime you want to see what’s new at all of the sites you have subscribed to.
Task: Set up ‘Google Reader’ and subscribe to some feeds, perhaps a few of the other 23 Things blogs. After you have checked your Google Reader for a few days, write a reflective blog post telling about an item of interest from your reader.
You can use RSS feeds to keep up-to-date with news items, favourite blogs, journal articles, book reviews or updated items from any area of interest.
The URL below links to a short video explaining the essence of RSS.
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