internet
RSS
posted by bholt at December 3, 2008 - 4:31pm, or 3:31pm for the author
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way for frequent reader of a website to be automatically notified when that website publishes new content. Most popular websites publish RSS feeds, including The Economist, xkcd, Mark Tupper’s Illini blog, CNN, PlanetHolt.com, and more.
The benefits of using RSS are obvious. One no longer has to manually browse to frequently-read sites to determine when new content is available. For sites that only publish content every few days (*cough*… PlanetHolt), this is a big time-saver. Many RSS readers also keep track of which stories have been read, helping to avoid confusion.
Read on for instructions on subscribing to PlanetHolt.com’s RSS feed, in Safari 3, Firefox 3, and Internet Explorer 7.
