RSS Feeds

A news feed (also known as an RSS feed) is a listing of a website's content. It is updated whenever new content is published to the site. News readers "subscribe" to news feeds, which means they download lists of stories and present them to you in your news reader. A news feed might contain a list of story headlines, a list of excerpts from the stories, or a list containing each story from the website. All news feeds will have a link back to the website, so if you see a headline / story you like, you can click on the link for that piece of content and will be taken to the website to read it.

Step one is to download your favorite news reader. If you have never used one before, try installing one of the news readers mentioned below and see which one you like.

Some commonly used news readers are Feed Demon, Sharp Reader, and NewsGator (an Outlook plugin) for Windows, NetNewsWire and Shrook for Macs, and Bloglines.com for those who like web-based readers.

Then point your news reader to the addesses below for each feed you want to subscribe to. Just click on the RSS logo to the right of each RSS/News feed.