Have you ever noticed the Syndicate this site (XML) link on the lower left of the page? Did you follow that link? It didn't look very readable, did it? Well, it's not supposed to. It's an RSS feed, and it's not for human consumption. It's a way to keep track of what's new on my website without having to visit the site yourself. You can have a program, an RSS reader, do it for you. Is that usefull? You bet. How many times have you visted a site, only to find that there is no new content, or no new content that you're interested in? With RSS you can quickly see what has changed on websites that you're interested in, without having to go there yourself. If you see something that looks interesting you visit the site like you normally would. This is surfing on steroids. Most browsers don't support RSS, so you'll need to get an RSS reader.
Fury has a nice article on RSS> He does a good job of explaining it from a user perspective.
Posted by mduvekot at February 22, 2004 08:36 AM