Wordpress Lets You Do That?

Really Simple Syndication. Doesn’t sound really simple to me but it is. RSS is a technology that has been around since about 2000, and what it does is publish blog entries, videos, podcasts and news headlines frequently in a standard format to users who subscribed to the blog’s RSS feeds.

Using RSS allows us (subscribers) to receive updates and content to those sites that we subscribe to instead of going to your bookmarks and constantly checking for updates manually.Now if you’re like me, and have a dozen great sites/blogs that you really like, it can be very time demanding to visit them every day and check for updates.

In order to subscribe to an RSS feed, we have to have an RSS Reader. These readers come in both local (desktop) or web based readers, and you can access your feeds no matter what computer you are using, and no matter where you are in the world. If you are a FireFox user, then you can automatically add Feeds to your browser simply by clicking on a Blog’s subscribe button. A great web based RSS Reader is through Google Reader, and you can set it up even better so you can view it through iGoogle.

Once you have subscribed to a RSS Feed, your reader will automatically update once a new feed has appeared and you will be able to click on a link to view the new post.

So this leaves the question, ‘How do I subscribe to a RSS feed?’. The easiest way, is when you are at a blog you want to subscribe to (like this one:) look at the browsers address bar and you will see an image similar to the one in this post. Click on that image and you will be presented with the opportunity to subscribe via your bookmarks, or other RSS readers that may be there. Many blogs have a very prominent RSS image and encourage readers to subscribe.