RSS (RDF Site Summary or Rich Site Summary) allows users to subscribe to feeds from websites and have headlines and summaries delivered in a single place. RSS feeds can be read more quickly than visiting each website individually. While scanning headlines is faster than full pages, subscribing to too many feeds may become overwhelming. RSS uses XML tags to tell feed readers how to display the information. Both websites and RSS feeds are text files, but RSS relies on RDF and XML tags to organize the content for aggregators.

1. Introduction
 The original version of RSS, created by UserLand in
1997, stands for RDF Site Summary or Rich Site
Summary.
 RSS is a way to take to a source of information.
 These sources are called feeds.
 When you subscribe, you can get a feed that include
often a series of headlines and brief summaries, from
all the articles published on that specific Web page.

2. Reading RSS feeds
 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.
 On the other hand, the ease with which you can
view RSS headlines may convince you that you
can subscribe to even more sites.
 ->Reading RSS feeds can be
a great time-saver.
 options that your aggregator allow you to display.

3. Reading RSS feeds
 Some browsers such as Firefox, Internet
Explorer and Safari let you read the feeds
within the program itself. They are among the
browsers that incorporate this feature.
 This gives you a couple of advantages: You
don't have to switch programs when you
want to catch up on your feed reading, and
you don't have to switch back to your
aggregator if you run across a great site
which you'd like to follow.

4. Creating RSS Feeds
 RSS and a normal Web site are the same in
one respect.
 Both are simple text files on Web servers.
 RSS uses the RDF as a guide to tell a feed
aggregator how to read the file.
 RDF is based on XML and the same type of
HTML.
 RDF needs tags.
 RSS tags tell your aggregator how to display
the feed on your screen.

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