RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a service to send you news updates from a website.
A program on your computer called an aggregator collects the data from the website providing the news feed. Many aggregator programs will allow you to customize the appearance of the news. Think of it as having your own custom newspaper composed of articles from the websites that you want to read about. Click here to see a screen shot from a typical RSS aggregator.
Where Can I Get an Aggregator Program?
RSS readers or aggregators come in a variety of formats:
As you can see, there are hundreds of different programs to choose from.
There is of course no requirement to use RSS to track your favorite news sources. If you would rather just visit our website occasionally to check up on things, the best place to go would be our News page.
