![]() If you want to get content as it is created and shared and in a format more flexible than an email digest, however, you’ll need RSS. For some content and perhaps for your particular reading style, email digests may be a perfect fit and they’re still in use by many web sites-if you’re interested in getting daily email updated from How-To Geek, for example, you can subscribe to the daily email here. In the new window that appears, use the find feature (Ctrl + F on a PC or Command + F on a Mac), and type in RSS. An RSS Feed (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a type of web feed that enables users to quickly access a web pages content without having to. Right click on the website’s page, and choose Page Source. Looking at the HTML source of the website’s page will also give you the RSS feed’s URL. Then all you need to do is sign into your RSS reader to immediately see whats new on several of you favorite websites. Material from the site gets packed up in a daily, weekly, or monthly digest, and fired off via email. Find the RSS Feed URL Through the Page Source. Historically, web sites mimicked analog mailing lists in order to deliver content. RSS is like bookmarking in that you flag the site to be used in the future, but instead of sitting statically in your bookmark folder, your RSS “bookmark” is an active entity that is constantly updating itself with new content from the saved source. Normally you bookmark a site and you have to go look in your bookmarks to click on the site to get new content. One of the easiest ways to envision RSS is that is is like a living bookmark file. ![]() ![]() Basically what that means is that an RSS feed gives you a way to keep up with your favorite new site, blogs, podcast, or website. RSS may be one of the most underutilized but incredibly useful tools around. What is an RSS Feed An RSS document which can be called a feed, web feed or a channel can include full or summarized text and metadata (publishing date and authors name).
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