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RSS, or “Really Simple Syndication,” is a way for people to keep up with the latest postings from blogs and news sites without having to manually check them for new content. RSS feeds are used to publish frequently updated Website content directly to software outside the Website itself that can keep track of an unlimited number of site feeds. So if you subscribe to The Successful Soul Proprietor Blog’s RSS feed, you wouldn’t have to call up the Website to know if there's anything new on the blog; new postings would be delivered straight to your RSS reader of choice as they are published!
An RSS feed can be read by programs called “feed readers” or “aggregators.” The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed’s link into the reader program or by clicking an RSS icon or link in a Web browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader program checks subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.
There are a variety of reader/aggregator programs available. Some, such as Feed'n Read, work independently of any other program. Others, like NewsGator Inbox, interface with commonly used programs like Microsoft Outlook or Oulook Express and download the latest feeds as it would an e-mail message. Still others work online, much like web-based mail services like Hotmail; Google Reader and Rojo are examples of that format. Users of Mozilla’s Firefox browser can utilize any of a number of browser plugins such as Wizz RSS News Reader or NewsFox to access RSS feeds directly in the Web broswer. There are also services like R-Mail that convert RSS feeds to e-mail messages and send them to your standard e-mail account.
The programs mentioned above are by no means the only aggregators out there, just a sampling of your options for handling RSS subscriptions. It might look intimidating if you’ve never worked with feeds before, but it isn’t; it truly is a really simple way of monitoring your favorite Websites!