What is RSS

RSS is a way that subscribe to a source of information, such as a Web site, and get brief

updates delivered to you.

RSS works

If you subscribed, you'll get a feed of all the articles published on that particular Web page.

And you can scan the articles on the page more efficiently.

Reading RSS feeds

Reading RSS feeds, you can save a lot of time. It is for information, it takes time to scan the entire Web page, you can check the headlines of the

dozens of sites all in one place.

Aggregators and RSS

Aggregators collect and interpret RSS feeds in one place. That way, you can look the latest

headlines from HowStuffWorks, CNN, the BBC and Reuters, all in one place.

RSS feeds make

Different from writing computer-programming code, most writing in a markup language like RDF

involves putting tags around existing copy.

RSS and RDF

RSS uses the World Wide Web Consortium's RDF as a guide to tell a feed aggregator how to

read the file. RDF is based on extensible markup language, a hypertext markup language, which is

the language used for everyday Web sites.