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RSS Feeds from Broadband TV News
What is RSS? RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering
regularly changing web content. Many news-related
sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate
their content as an RSS Feed to whoever
wants it. Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS RSS solves a problem for people who regularly
use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by
retrieving the latest content from the sites you
are interested in. You save time by not needing
to visit each site individually. The number of sites
offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes
big names like Yahoo
News.
What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed? RSS
Feed Readers and News Aggregators
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow
you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and
display them for you to read and use.
A variety
of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed
readers include FeedReader (Windows),
NewsFire (Mac) and NewsGator (Windows
- integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers
available. My
Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google
Reader are popular web-based feed readers.
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites
that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your
Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon  or
the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.
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