RSS feeds allow users to easily track updates from multiple news sites and blogs in one place by collecting headlines and summaries from various sources. RSS readers aggregate RSS files from sites on topics like news, sports and weather, so users can review updates from dozens of sites without visiting each site individually. Creating RSS feeds simply involves adding tags to existing web content to tell aggregators how to read the file according to the Resource Description Framework standard.

2. INTRODUCTION
The trouble with living in the Information Age is paradoxical:
There's too much information.
It's everywhere. How are you supposed to keep track of all the news, sports,
weather and blogs you follow?

3. RSS READER
Reading RSS feeds can be a great time-saver. In the time it takes you to scan whole
Web pages for information,
you can review headlines from dozens of sites all collected in one place.

4. RSS READER ２
Reading feeds requires a few simple things, many of which you already have. You'll
need a computer -- or compatible electronic device -- and an Internet
connection. After that, you need something that can read, or aggregate, RSS
files. Aggregators collect and interpret RSS feeds in one location. That way, you
can see the latest headlines from HowStuffWorks, CNN, the BBC and Reuters,
all in one place.

5. CREATING RSS FEEDS
RSS isn't really that different from a normal Web site. In fact, they're the same in
one respect: Both are simple text files on Web servers. RSS uses the World Wide
Web Consortium's Resource Description Framework (RDF) as a guide to tell a
feed aggregator how to read the file.

6. CREATING RSS FEEDS ２
nlike writing computer-programming code, most writing in a markup language like
RDF involves putting tags around existing copy. For example, to make text bold
in HTML, you would just enclose your sentence in a pair of tags: and . If you
wanted to write the sentence "HTML is really great" in actual HTML, it would
look like this: