RSS - What is it?
It is relatively difficult to find a good, fast and accessible RSS reader. I briefly introduced the idea and convenience of a RSS in my first post, but never properly explained it.
The average person does generally not visit the same websites on a daily basis to see what has been added and updated. As blogs (short for weblog; an online journal) have become very popular over the last few years, people wanted to read only the new content of a website. The next step was to get a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader. As something new is added to a blog or news feed, subscribers can get instant notifications when they go to their RSS reader. It’s like checking only the mail you want that’s addressed to the world; like an up-to-the-minute newsletter.
There are many RSS readers avaliable. One of the best is Google Reader, simply because you can access it anywhere in the world (like a web-based email service). Google Reader is not intrusive and is very simple to use. Another user-friendly tool, called R-Mail, delivers each seperate post to your email inbox, so you never miss anything.
RSS technology has been around for a long time but only recently has it become popular and easy to use. You should look for the small orange RSS or XML image if you’d like to subscribe to a feed such as The Machets’ Blog or The Age Headlines, or your online reader’s add image (For Example, Google Reader has the image 
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On The Machets’ Blog, you can simply click on any of the reader images on the right of the homepage to have it added to your favourite reader instantly. RSS is a great way for people to read up to the minute information, from news to jokes to absolutely anything else!
To subscribe to a feed with Rmail, all you need to do is copy the link (something like http://website.com/feed.xml), go to r-mail.org and fill in the link and your email address. To get going with Google Reader, go to reader.google.com and follow the instructions.
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