Introduction
Have you noticed those small RSS icons while you’re online reading your favorite newspaper or looking at the results of a search? RSS, an acronym for Really Simple Syndication, is essentially a way for Web sites to syndicate new items.
RSS lets you select the source of your information. The idea is that instead of being inundated by email or millions of matches in Google searches, you can select the RSS feeds you want to read, filter them, and get only the information you want. You find an RSS feed, subscribe to it, and read the feed using an RSS reader installed on your computer.
The popularity of RSS has exploded since it first arrived on the scene, and today there are millions of RSS feeds. Just about any kind of information is ...
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