Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes RSS is a tool for delivering ever changing web content. Many online publishers including news agencies and blogs and other on line publishers use RSS to syndicate their content as RSS feeds to whoever wants them. When RSS is used to distribute information it is called a feed. RSS resolves a problem for those who frequent the web. It allows them to easily download summaries of the latest news or information without visiting each website’s RSS feeds. They also maintain the user’s privacy since they don’t have to sign up for a site’s latest newsletter. The user gets the information through software called RSS Channel Readers. Channel Readers are also called news readers or News Aggregators. All you, the user, have to do is look for sites that syndicate content you are interested in and add them to the list that your news aggregator checks. These aggregators are available for a variety of computing platforms. Some are free applications...
