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What Is RSS Feed?

As you’re visiting websites these days, your probably coming across this symbol (or a variation of it) more and more, it indicates that there is a RSS Feed available for the site, but what is RSS Feed?

I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there who know exactly what an RSS feed is, but I keep getting blank looks when I mention it to people, so I thought I’d write a quick post highlighting what it can do.

RSS Explained in Steps

RSS explained in steps? What is this RSS subscription thing? Why should I subscribe? What’s in it for you? Right well here’s the explanation in plain English!

After having been blogging here now for around 2 months with that big orange symbol sitting over there on the right hand side of the site, I did think that an explanation was well over due, so here it is:

“It’s essentially a way for you to receive new updates from websites all in one place, much like you receive your emails from all your friends in one place, thus saving you a lot of wasted time from when you regularly visit your favourite sites only to find they haven’t changed since the last time you visited.”