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.

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 summaries of 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 and Amazon.com.

What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed?

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. Choose one of the readers from the left column. If you already have a reader, we've made it easy for you to add our feed to your reader in the right column.

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 with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.

More information on RSS

Syndic8 - Directory of RSS Feeds
What is RSS, and Why Should Your Care?
XML.com: What is RSS?
Introduction to RSS - WebReference.com
Sites with RSS Feeds More RSS Examples. Sites with RSS feeds linking to WhatIsRSS.com