[bksvol-discuss] Re: RSS
- From: "Jared Wright" <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:51:54 -0500
Hi Nancy, RSS stands for "really simple syndication" and is a method for
retrieving content from various locations on the internet from one destination.
RSS readers can be found as part of web portals like Yahoo! or AOL or can be
standalone applications. Both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 have integrated
RSS support. The real benefit of RSS is that you can, from a home base of
sorts, track updates to as many sites as you like. For example, on my yahoo!
portal that is loaded up all with all sorts of RSS feeds, I see the most recent
headlines from the associated press, PC World, ESPN, E! Online, as well as many
other official news sources and smaller blogs that I follow. This way I don't
have to go to each site to see if they've updated their content. It's all
neatly organized for me through RSS. If I see an update to a site or location
on the net that I'd like to read, I can click the headline provided by the RSS
reader to go to the source of that headline's site and read the article or
feature in full. I hope this is a good starting point; RSS has taken off into a
technology that's used for all sorts of things, so efficiently summarizing it
is getting more and more complicated.
Jared
----- Original Message -----
From: Nancy Hill
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:18 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] RSS
Will someone please enlighten me re: RSS? I have seen it mentioned a number
of times, but I have no idea what it is, if I have it, or what to do with it.
Thanks,
Nancy
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