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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Over the years technology has provided us with more options for sending and receiving content over the internet. One of the newest is a delivery system called Real Simple Syndication or “RSS”. Definition: RSS is a format for delivering news and other content through a syndication channel. The most common sites that publish RSS feeds still include major news organizations whose information is broken into different stories and can be delivered to recipients once published. This delivery concept has also been adopted by other non-news related sites such as the blogging community who publish posts (similar to news stories) and allow other people to subscribe through RSS to receive their blog posts automatically. RSS Usage Rates: RSS has been in use since 1999 but still hasn’t been adopted by the mass Internet community. According to an October 2005 White Paper published by Yahoo, “Awareness of RSS is quite low among Internet users....