Jake of the Web

What is RSS about?

RSS, in its most simple terms, stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' and is a way for you to view updates to all of your favorite/important sites in one location. News sites, blogs, podcasts and more and more other sites are using RSS, as it also gets their content out to people in a more effective way.

To view RSS feeds, you need an aggregator, which can be a web based app or a downloaded application. Google has 'Google Reader', Yahoo has an aggregator on 'My Yahoo'. Outlook 2007 will also have an RSS reader/aggregator built in. There are Firefox extensions for RSS Feeds, including;

Sage:

http://sage.mozdev.org/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77

Wizz RSS:

http://www.wizzrss.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/424



KlipFolio is a free downloadable RSS aggregator

http://www.download.com/KlipFolio/3000-9227_4-10653710.html

(Atropos note: You can subscribe to the blog's RSS with http://radiofromhell.livejournal.com/data/rss)