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What is RSS?

RSS provides a mechanism for websites to provide their content outside of a traditional web browser. An RSS file is actually in XML format and contains little more than a list of titles, links and some limited excerpts of stories.

The great benefit of RSS is aggregation - allowing many websites to be browsed with one application to check for updates, instead of spending hours browsing sites that haven't changed since the last time you looked at them.

Some RSS readers:

For Windows, try FeedDemon, a great RSS reader with built-in alert and archiving tools.

For MacOSX, check out Ranchero software's NetNewsWire.


Many major websites already publish an RSS feed, such as:

  • BBC | News
  • Guardian | News
  • Guardian | Online Blog
  • Everything Typepad

    plus most weblogs, including mine.

    Posted on Feb 04, 2004 in Tech | Permalink

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