Chapter 24. Syndicating the Web with RSS News Feeds

 

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

 
 --Jerry Seinfeld

What is equally as amazing as Jerry Seinfeld’s newspaper observation is how much news is now read online instead of from the printed page. As a professional nerd, I’m probably not the best example of your “average person” from a tech perspective, but I only read printed newspapers when I have absolutely no access to the Web. I’m actually fairly old school in terms of generally enjoying printed material from newspapers to books to magazines, but for news you can’t beat the immediacy of online publishing. Which brings me to the topic of this final lesson in the book: ...

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