Decisive December

[marathondan]

RSS. Is that like the old RS Cosworth?
I like the 'idea' of these 'feeds' but have never got to grips with how it all works. Do they come to you via an e-mail link or appear in your web browser?

Actually it's sort of the opposite of an RS Cosworth. You get the content of the site, without all the fibreglass spoilers and oversized tailpipes that some people add to their sites for decoration.

You can view a feed directly in your browser to see what the content looks like (e.g. some bloke's feed here) but that isn't really the point. You need a feed reader to record which posts you've read, and to organise them all into one place.

I use Google Reader (for which you need a Google account). Then I just visit the Google Reader site and all of my 50+ subscriptions are there. I think you can use Firefox as a reader directly, and maybe the newer versions of IE too. There is definitely software that will send the feeds to your email, but I think you tend to have to pay for that.