What is RSS?

maggiefox, April 9 2008

Everyone is yammering about RSS, or Really Simple Syndication – is your website RSS-enabled? Do you subscribe to RSS feeds? Have you tried to get someone to explain RSS, and been totally baffled by the answer? (Which reminds me of a story I once heard Shel Holtz tell. Someone he knew was speaking at a conference and used the term RSS. He saw that about half the audience was confused, so started to explain what it was. After he was done, about eighty percent of the audience looked confused).

If you’re not entirely sure what RSS is and want to know why it’s so incredibly important and useful – check out this fine video from Commoncraft – RSS, In Plain English:

Discussion

Brian Fidler on April 9th, 2008
If you're using Google Reader you can grab RSS feeds in an even simpler way. Click on the "Mange Subscriptions" link in the left hand column at the bottom of the page. This will take you to your Settings for Google Reader. If you click on the "Goodies" tab, you'll have access to some buttons you can add to your toolbar (at least in Firefox, i'm not sure about IE). Once you drag the "Subscribe" button into your toolbar, you can then simple click on it whenever you find yourself at a site you'd like to monitor and if there is an RSS feed it will automatically add it to your Reader subscriptions.
Social Media Press Releases: Your Secret Weapon | Social Media Group on April 28th, 2008
[...] we can safety assume that the writers and editors of Autopia have figured out the whole RSS thing, they will be automatically notified of updates to the Fiesta SMPR, and that when something is of [...]
social media press releases linkbait | on May 7th, 2008
[...] we can safely assume that the writers and editors of Autopia have figured out the whole RSS thing, they will be automatically notified of updates to the Fiesta SMPR, and that when something is of [...]
Another Commoncraft Gem: Google Reader | Social Media Group on September 2nd, 2008
[...] Commoncraft team took on the challenge with their RSS in Plain English video. Google asked them to take it one step further with their custom video, Google Reader in [...]

 







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