RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content like blog posts, news headlines, or podcasts. RSS feeds allow users to stay up to date with their favorite websites more easily than manually checking each site. Users subscribe to RSS feeds by adding the feed's link to an RSS reader, which then regularly checks for and downloads any new content updates. Sharing content to blogs and other websites is known as syndication. RSS and Atom are common feed formats that are based on XML.

2. RSS RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish often updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favourite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually .

3. RSS Readers The software used to access an RSS feed is referred to by different names: RSS reader Feed Reader Aggregator

4. RSS Subscription The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that begins the subscription process. The reader regularly checks the user's subscribed feeds for new content , downloading any updates that it finds.

5. Syndication Sharing content to blogs and websites is known as syndication.

6. Feed Formats There are different formats for web feeds: RSS 2.0 Stands for: Really Simple Syndication Other info: Current RSS version RSS 1.0 Stands for: RDF Site Summary (RDF means Resource Description Framework Other info: Still used, but not as simple as RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0 Info: More formal specification than RSS Other Info: Published by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

7. XML The RSS and Atom feed formats are based on XML . XML is a set of rules for constructing an electronic document.

8. Credits Weblogs SCF Level 5 – Blogging – RSS Produced by M. Cunningham for the City of Edinburgh Council 2010 All images licenced under Creative Commons 3.0 Newspaper dog thinking RSS by Stylianos Mystakidis (stylianosm on Flickr) Syndication by Carlo Daniele (Carlo on Flickr)