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Why RSS is Important?
#52 - 0--Administrator--Why RSS is Important?--2006-11-17 00:54:42
All the recent excitement over my new RSS feeds has resulted in a flurry of comments and e-mails asking "What is a RSS feed?" and "Why do we need RSS feeds?" I'd like to take a shot at both questions.RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, which is simply a text file that contains the information you see on a Webpage in a different format. - Why is RSS so important? We all get too much SPAM, and many e-mail newsletters are getting blocked or automatically deleted by SPAM filters. With RSS you subscribe to the sites you're interested in reading. Nobody can sign you up for a RSS feed -- you have to subscribe (no more SPAM!). If you don't like a RSS feed, you can simply delete it and it's gone.
If you see a small orange XML icon, the words "Subscribe" or "RSS Feed" on a site, you can copy the link into your RSS reader (some RSS readers let you click on the link to subscribe). You only have to do this once for each site, and then you can read these Web sites using the RSS reader. RSS readers are great -- I don't have to visit 60 sites every day to see if they have been updated -- Feed shows me which sites have been updated and how many times.
I hope I gave you a few reasons why we're so excited about the RSS feeds. Now let's wait your feed to appear and let me know when can I subscribe, but don't forget to subscribe mine too. :)--comments-->97--2967--2
