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Originally posted by arch13
A nice but breif tech explanation for you cheerios
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Good reference for what it
is, but it doesn't say much about what it's
for.
So there are all these websites out there. Ranging all the way from Slashdot and CNN.com to the tiniest little personal blog. And they have available on their servers an XML-formatted version of their headlines and stories, conforming to the RSS spec.
You've got a piece of software on your desktop that downloads the RSS feeds from your 50 favorite sites and displays them quickly and efficiently without your having to fire up a browser. You can read news, blogs, etc VERY quickly and stay right up to date on news and events. The stories are typically displayed as clickable HTML, so you can dig in for more info easily.
I surf Slashdot, Boingboing, Metafilter, CNN, a couple of personal tech news sites, several prominent personal blogs (Lessig, mainly), "what's new" at ThinkGeek, the local weather, etc all in about five minutes.