Subscribe to RSS Feed
How do I subscribe to a news feed?
Step one is to download a news reader. (What is a news reader?)
Point your news reader to the address below to subscribe to the eCore Student Survival Guide Blog. You may also copy and paste the".xml" link into your newsreaders subscribe area. Alternatively, you may click on the link below in your web-browser and then select your news reader and click subscribe.
eCore Student Survival Guide Blog
http://ecoreguide.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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More about RSS
This FAQ will show you how, and will answer some of the common questions about RSS and News feeds.
- What is a news feed?
- How do I subscribe to an OJDLA news feeds?
- What is a news reader?
- Should I use a news reader?
- What is RSS?
- What is syndication?
A news feed (also known as an RSS feed) is a listing of a website's content. It is updated whenever new content is published to the site. News readers "subscribe" to news feeds, which means they download lists of stories at an interval that you specify (every 30 minutes, for example), and present them to you in your news reader. A news feed might contain a list of story headlines, a list of excerpts from the stories, or a list containing each story from the website (DDEC news feeds contain Educational articles and news excerpts). All news feeds will have a link back to the website, so if you see a headline / excerpt / story you like, you can click on the link for that piece of content and will be taken to the website to read it.
A news reader (also known as a news aggregator) allows you to view the articles, headlines and information coming from the feed you subscribed to. News readers are to news feeds what Outlook, Thunderbird and Netscape Mail are to email.
The short answer: it depends.
The longer answer: if you visit a lot of websites on daily basis or read a lot of weblogs (or "blogs"), a news reader can save you a lot of time. Sites like ABCNews.com , Salon, and the New York Times all have syndicated feeds.
Using a news reader to consume your web media means that you only need to visit a website when you read a story in your news reader that is of interest to you. You won't have to visit many sites multiple times every day to see if there are updates; your news reader will do that for you and will let you know when there is a new story to be read!
Some commonly used news readers are:
Software: Blogbridge, Feed Demon, NewsGator (an Outlook plugin), and Sharp Reader.
Web-based: Bloglines, Google and Yahoo offer web based readers.
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary".
A RSS feed (also known as a news feed) is a site's syndicated news feed that you subscribe to using your news reader.
Syndication refers to the process that occurs when a publisher provides content in a form that can be consumed by software (like a news reader).
When the author of a website publishes a story (the content), your news reader (the software) sees that a new story is available and alerts you.