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Also, if you’re following a social media account for updates, links to articles and blog posts come amid all the other stuff. RSS removes noiseĪs the above screenshot shows, RSS readers can provide a stripped down view of an article, similar to Safari and Firefox’s reader views. You only need to refer to one service to get instant updates from hundreds or even thousands of sources, such as one person blogs, newspapers or tech websites. If you are interested in reading what people or organisations publish on their own websites, an RSS reader provides an instant list of everything you’re subscribed to. An RSS reader provides a single place to collect lots of content I don’t use Facebook, so you’d need to subscribe to either my (protected) Twitter account, or the relatively obscure micro.blog service to get notified whenever I publish anything new. Without RSS, you need to be subscribed to the correct social media channel So, why bother with RSS? There are a few reasons some practical, others more philosophical. are essentially feeds, and most bloggers will post links to new posts to their social media channels. Lots of social media and websites allow you to subscribe to content. Often, all you need is the website address, and the RSS reader will automagically find the RSS feed. Give your RSS reader the feed web address and it’ll do the rest for you. RSS feeds are simply files that you can find at a web address. In the third column you can read the actual article (yes, you don’t even have to visit the website itself). In the middle column there’s a list of all the posts published in the feed I’ve selected. In the first column there’s a list of all the feeds I’ve subscribed to.

Here’s a screenshot of an RSS reader app called NetNewsWire. It can either be through a website (just like you can get your email at ) or an app (just like the gmail app). Think of this as something like the service you use to get your email. In order to subscribe to an RSS feed you’ll need an RSS reader. The feed is updated whenever I publish something new. Instead of visiting every day to see if I’ve published a new post, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.

Let’s say you find my Static works post interesting and feel it’d be worth keeping an eye out for anything new I write. By subscribing, readers don’t have to keep visiting the source of the content (normally a website) to check for something new.

This is often blog posts, but it could be news articles by category, articles published by a particular newspaper author or even a social media stream. RSS (short for Really Simple Syndication) provides a way for readers to subscribe to content. What’s RSS? – This day’s portion Skip to content