RSS

With all of the new blogs, wikis and websites published everyday, it makes keeping up with information a full time job. Working with RSS helps solve this problem. RSS stands for "Real Simple Syndication". Many sites now, especially blogs, wikis, and news sites, generate a coded version of the site. This code, called an RSS feed, looks a mess when we view it through a web browser, but with the help of an RSS reader we can “subscribe” to this site.

What does that really mean? Well, if I like to read 10 different blogs (and that's a real understatement), that would mean that I would have to go to those 10 different pages maybe several times a day to see if there is a new post. With an RSS Reader, I could subscribe to those 10 different sites and then I would just go to my RSS Reader and it would show me when there are new posts to be read.

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