What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and is a method whereby a vistor to a website can
automatically receive new content from a website without having to visit that
website to find it - it is delivered to you.
RSS works on a system of "feeds" (often called News Feeds) and their presence on a web page is
generally indicated by one of the following icons:
In the case of web browsers, there is often an icon that displays in the address bar or on the toolbr which would
indicate the presence of an RSS feed on the page being viewed. As below:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Mozilla FireFox
Opera
Safari (Mac OS X)
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Using RSS feeds
RSS feeds are used via a "Feed Reader" (sometimes called an aggregator or something similar). Recently, web browsers
have included RSS feed readers into their offering so that users are not required to use a external application.
The basic principle of an RSS feed is much similar to a bookmark. Like bookmarking a web page, you bookmark an RSS feed.
The main difference between the two is that an RSS feed bookmark "polls" the web page on a periodic basis (once per hour
or once per day or at some other interval) looking for new content. Should new content be found the user is either alerted
to presence of that new content, or presented with it.
Once you have been alerted to the new content, it is either presented to you in the news reader (or browser) or you are
presented with a link to follow to read the new content.
Generally, RSS feeds contain text ... news stories and the like but it also forms the basis of podcasting technology
which is starting to gain popularity and is a technology which OzLeisure has embrased.
More information
If you would like to find out more about the technical specifics of RSS, please read the
Wikipedia article.
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