What+is+RSS?

=What is RSS?=

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS allows you to subscribe to your favorite content on webpages and have any changes or updates sent to you automatically so that you don't have to go and check if there is anything new. This can be really helpful if you have several webpages that you like to check frequently for new information. If you subscribe using an RSS Reader then you only have to check one place, your RSS reader, for updated content instead of going to each one of the webpages individually to see if they have been updated.

There are many good RSS readers on the web to use. I really like Google Reader. You can sign up for a [|free account at Google Reader] and get started really quickly. After you sign up for a Google Reader account the next step is to find out if the websites that you like have RSS feeds. Look for the the little orange icon in your browser bar or on the page that you're interested in. You can subscribe to the Trubyville wiki if you would like to get updates in your RSS reader. Click on the "notify me" tab at the top of the page to find the RSS feeds. You can subscribe to RSS feeds for each individual page or discussion on Trubyville or you can set up a site-wide RSS feed that will keep track of all page edits and discussions.

Another neat thing about RSS is that you can embed and add RSS feeds to other webpages so that updated content continues to show up. I will show you an example of this on our local news page. Check it out to see how it works.

Thanks to Henry for finding this great video that illustrates how RSS works.

RSS in Plain English
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