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These days the web is heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be a drag. Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news and features delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site? RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the web have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day. It removes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in. RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'. RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help think of them as the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines. Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity. We have RSS feeds for our News and soon our Forum Posts.
How do I start using RSS feeds? You need something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest Black Presence News stories, simply visit the News section and you will notice an orange RSS button on the right hand side. If you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader. Most sites that offer RSS feeds use a similar orange RSS button, but some may just have a normal web link to the feed. Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for RSS feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to RSS feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites. There are loads of news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time. We have place links to a variet of news readers on the Homepage. Different news readers work on different operating systems, so choose one that will work with your computer. |
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