What is RSS?

RSS – Really Simple Syndication – What is it and How Do You Use It?

Ever hear of subscribing for magazines? Well, there are millions upon millions of sites on the internet which has an abundance of useful information which we may need at some point in our life! So how do we siphon through all that information (overload?) to find the really useful stuff we need? We don’t really want to do all that work of going through each and every web site looking?? …. or do you? Time’s a wasting!! Enter RSS – Really Simple Syndication.

You may have seen this on many sites in the form of some nice eye catching icons:

RSS Icons

What do these do? They are your subscription forms!! Click on one and it will take you through the 2 or less steps that you need to do to subscribe. But wait… How do you read the feed you subscribe to? You will need a Feed Reader: here is a nice free one Google RSs Feed Reader of course you do need a Google mail account, hey! who hasn’t??!! If you don’t click here for a list of other RSS Feed Readers.

If you did not understand a word that I said (sigh……) Here it is in picture and voice format!!