What are newsfeeds
What is RSS?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It is a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people. It is used by computer programs that organize those headlines and notices for easy reading.
What does RSS do?
Most people are interested in many web sites whose content changes on an unpredictable schedule. Examples of such web sites are news sites, community and religious organization information pages, product information pages, medical web sites, and web logs. Repeatedly checking each web site to see if there is any new content can be very tedious.
E-mail notification of changes was an early solution to this problem. Unfortunately, when you receive e-mail notifications from multiple web sites they are usually disorganized and can get overwhelming, and are often mistaken for spam.
RSS is a better way to be notified of new and changed content. Notifications of changes to multiple web sites are handled easily, and the results are presented to you well organized and distinct from e-mail.
How does RSS work?
RSS works by having the web site author maintain a list of notifications on their web site in a standard way. This list of notifications is called an "RSS Feed". People who are interested in finding out the latest headlines or changes can check this list. Special computer programs called "RSS aggregators" have been developed that automatically access the RSS feeds of web sites you care about on your behalf and organize the results for you.
How do I start using feeds?
In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.
Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a web site, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their web sites. Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.
Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want it to receive. For example, if you would like the latest 4x4 News stories, simply visit the 4x4 News section and you will notice an orange button on the right hand side and on some browsers the RSS feed icon will also appear in the address bar. If you click on the RSS button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.
All of the RSS feeds available on this site are listed on the right hand side of this page, you can subscribe to one, more or all of the individual feeds, or if you are using a news feed aggregator and wish to subscribe to all of the feeds you can use the OPML feed which contains all of the feeds stored in the same way RSS feed aggregators collect RSS feeds.
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