Hi Olivia! How are you doing?
I hope your day is going well.
An RSS Feed is a syndicated feed, or to put it plainly, a link that
gets monitored for incoming news/articles/podcasts, or whatever the
feed is for. Think of it like getting your newspaper delivered to
you, only in a electronic way, and not actually on paper.
Anyhow, RSS feeds can be found usually all over the web. Just look
for a link that is labled as RSS, and that will get you started.
As for an RSS Reader, it is basically a program that houses all the
information being gathered. It works as a subscription service. As
long as you provide the RSS URL, which you get from clicking on the
RSS link on a page, then you are good. Most of the time, pages have a
way of automatically presenting your RSS Reader with the information,
therefore making it quicker to subscribe.
Safari already has an RSS reader built in by default. If you go to
your location bar with VO+ L, and then use VO Navigational keys to
navigate to the right, you will hear an item that says news. If you
have it enabled or still catching news, as it is set by default, a
number will be heard after News is spoken. You can use VO+Space to
pull the menu down, and see what is available. So for example, Safari
defaults to subscribing to Google as an RSS feed. If you click on the
Google item, you will be taken to a page that has all the collected
google artiles stored, allowing you to read them at your own pace
without going to the actual webpage.
RSS Readers are really good in this way, only because you can get all
your information at one place, and not have to hop all over the web
for the info you want.
Mail has an RSS Reader, and other applications like Net News Wire,
PlayPod, and Vienna do a more specific handling of RSS feds, since
that is what they were made for. Mail works with RSS feeds as well,
but programs like Vienna, NetNewsWire, and PlayPod were designed for
hte job.
In either case, it is totally a user preference whether you want to
get RSS Feeds in your web client, mail client, or use a particular
program to do it.
I hope this helps you out.
Best wishes.
Fonzie
On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:46 PM, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:
What is an RSS feed? What is an RSS reader? How do I find RSS feeds
and use RSS readers?
Sorry for this obvious question, but I would love some guidence.
Thanks, Olivia
