What is RSS?

RSS stands for 'Rich site summary' and 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. So you choose which web sites you want to deliver their latest news directly to your monitor. RSS is perfect for the 'information junkie' as an RSS takes the latest headlines from different web sites, and pushes those headlines down to your computer for quick scanning. So instead of having to visit 14 different places to get your weather, sports, favourite photos, latest gossip, or latest political debates, you just go to one screen and see it combined ("aggregated") into a single window. The RSS headlines headlines and stories are effectively immediate. Once published at the source server, RSS headlines take only moments to get to your screen. RSS save you time by not needing to visit each site individually and ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each sites email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News.