What RSS Is and Why You Should Use It

So much content is available to us these days over the internet, and keeping up with all of it can be pretty difficult at times. A few years ago, I could spend hours checking on a handful of sites every day for new content. Not only did that take a lot of time, it was also difficult to keep track of what I had viewed already and what was new. Luckily, I found out about RSS feeds and “subscribing” to sites, and what a difference that has made!

Essentially, what RSS (and other labels such as “Feed”, “XML” or “Atom”) is, is a standardized format in which websites can publish (syndicate) updates that have been made to their website. Since… read more