Sure you can ask...........the answer costs money <laugh> Check out: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html In brief: RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way. RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them. Regards from Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy", ,,,,,,,, Ô¿Ô¬ Cincinnati, Ohio - Scottsdale, Arizona ----------------------------------------------- Friday, 6/10/2005, @ 10:45:16 PM EST ----------------------------------------------- Feel free to hurt my feelings....... All you risk is my insane rage. ==================|:o:|================== On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:30:32 +0100, Ange wrote: | Can I be totally thick here and ask what RSS aggregaters are?#? | | Ange | a.k.a. Clueless of Doncaster | http://www.geocities.com/locustchewed/outanabout.html | | ~~~~~The Clueless Reply Separator~~~~~ | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "David Weaver" <djweaver@xxxxxxxxx> | To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 9:45 PM | Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Blogs and RSS | | | Blog software yes, rss aggregators yes but haven't put it together | | -----Original Message----- | From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keyboard | Cowboy Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:55 AM To: PCTechTalk - | Freelists Subject: (no subject) | | Anyone using RSS aggregators and blog software? | Regards from | | Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy", | ,,,,,,,, | =D4=BF=D4=AC | Cincinnati, Ohio | Scottsdale, Arizona | =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<[0]>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Thu | rsday 6/9/2005 9:54:05 PM | | "To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what | the=20 world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your | soul alive." | | -- Robert Louis Stevenson | | | -- | <Please delete this line and everything below.> | | To unsub or change your email settings: | //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk | | To access our Archives: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ | //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ | | | -- | <Please delete this line and everything below.> | | To unsub or change your email settings: | //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk | | To access our Archives: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ | //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ | | | -- | <Please delete this line and everything below.> | | To unsub or change your email settings: | //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk | | To access our Archives: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ | //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/