RSS

What’s RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple
Syndication. What’s that? Bascially it is a way of delivering web content
directly from a website to an end-user without the user needing to chase down
information from several websites. You can learn more at:

href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss">http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss

and

href="http://www.oreillynet.com/topics/rss/rss">http://www.oreillynet.com/topics/rss/rss


Software for RSS Feeds

The
easiest way to get RSS feeds is to use href="http://rss.blogstreet.com/asp-rssbin/auth_rss">Info Aggregator. Its free and easy to do. RSS feeds are then delivered to your inbox.
Another product that integrates with Outlook is href="http://www.newsgator.com/">Newsgator.


If you would like a product that integrates with Internet Explorer, you may want to try Pluck.com.

If you would prefer a more robust standalone product try one of these links:

• http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp
  
  
• http://www.feeddemon.com/feeddemon/beta/index.asp
  
  
• http://www.rssreader.com/ (This is my favorite)

A review of six popular RSS readers can be found at

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1228694,00.asp

Once you have a reader or Outlook plugin installed, all you need to do is tell the
application which RSSfeeds you want to receive. The folks offering Info Aggregator are kind enough to provide a directory of more than href="http://www.blogstreet.com/blogsqlbin/rssdir.pl">11,000 feeds from blogs. However, you can also get feeds from government agencies, the BBC, Yahoo News, and more.

RSS News feed sources

• BBC – 68 Newsfeeds RSS Links
• Cartoons RSS Links
• Consumer Product Safety Commission> XML Feed
• Department of Defense RSS Links
• Federal Computer Week
• 
  FirstGov.gov Security Feeds
• Government RSS Newsfeeds RSS Links
• 
  Macromedia Developers
• MSDN Developer News XML Feed
• New York Times
• Open Source Vulnerability Database RSS Links
• Security Related RSS
  Feeds
• TechWorld
• US-Cert
• VeriSign
• Washington Post
  RSS Links
• Yahoo RSS Links

More RSS Stuff

You may also want to visit http://www.syndic8.com for information on getting news feeds and http://newsisfree.com for information on hosted pages with your news feeds.