RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated
digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.
Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the
user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying a link to that feed to their reader;
the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those
feeds have new content, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the
user.
How to use RSS Feeds
You may have noticed that when you try to click on one the text near the
orange, rectangular buttons up above
, you just get a squirrelly looking
PAGE of code. RSS is written in XML (Extensible Markup Language), similar to
html. That’s all fine and good, but you wont be able to read the feeds. Well,
that’s because you need an RSS feed reader to make it work. Some readers
automatically take you to the full article, while with others, you must use
their application’s RSS button.