RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving summaries of the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News and Amazon.com.
Compatible browsers (Firefox, IE7), Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds
from various sites and display them for you to read and use.
A variety
of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed
readers include Amphetadesk (Windows,
Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows),
and NewsGator (Windows - integrates
with Outlook).
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites
that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your
Feed Reader checks.
The front page of the St Louis website displays an RSS icon to let you know a feed is available. We are also using RSS feeds from other sites such as the BBC technology feed. See the ICT front page for details.
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