How do I subscribe to your RSS feed?
24th March 2006
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way of delivering headlines instantly and automatically to Web sites, Web browsers, and RSS readers (software designed to collect and aggregate such feeds). Most commonly used in Blogs (short for web-log), RSS is also used for National Newspaper websites to allow readers to subscribe only to those sections of news with which they have interest.
Subscribe to our feed, and you will receive a list of links or bookmarks to the day’s stories that update automatically. More information is available about the software involved; see our FAQ post about RSS Aggregators.
To subscribe to our newsfeed, find the links on the right sidebar under the Subscribe heading, and point your web-browser or RSS Aggregator software there. Individual instructions for how to subscribe may vary depending on the software you decide to use. There is a very excellent article on the web that goes into some more details:
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s basically a computer-readable summary of the content of a Web page. This summary might be just the headlines of the articles on the page, the headlines plus a sentence or two excerpt of the articles, or even the headlines plus the entire articles. These are known as “headline only”, “headline + excerpt” and “full text” feeds, respectively.
There are, of course, nuances, because RSS is now used for a lot more than just Web pages comprised of a set of articles (e.g., weblogs). For example, the New York Times has a set of RSS feeds that let you subscribe to just the movie reviews or just their business news.
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Wikipedia also has an excellent article describing RSS and its history.
We will be happy to answer any additional questions you may have, so please contact us if you have difficulty.