So What’s RSS?

RSS puts you back in control of the content you receive. You can subscribe to an RSS feed with just a couple of clicks, and unsubscribe just as easily. No need to ask publishers to take you off their list, no worries about your details being passed on and swamping your inbox with spam. You decide what gets delivered and what doesn’t.

How does RSS work?

RSS is a great technology that takes the most important part of a website – the content – and packages it up in an easily digestible format. Whenever a site is updated, new articles are delivered straight to you.

Many sites, from news giants like the BBC and CNN to individual blogs, already offer updates via RSS and more start every day.

Making sure you’re well fed

Popular home page services like My MSN, Google homepage and My Yahoo let you subscribe to RSS feeds.

Alternatively, you could try a service designed specifically for reading RSS – Bloglines, NewsGator and Google Reader are popular choices.

You can also subscribe to feeds directly through most browsers, such as Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, or via standalone programs such as the superb FeedDemon. If you click here you should see the Pole Exercise feed.*

More info

If you’d like to know a bit more about RSS, there are great introductions on Copyblogger and the BBC. For juicy details about how RSS works, try these links.

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And here’s a link to the Pole Exercise RSS feed. You know you want to.

* If you just get something like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http:// then your browser probably doesn’t support RSS. You may be able to click on the feed icon in the address bar instead, or you could always try a new one.