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What is RSS and what are RSS feeds?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  RSS is basically a group of web feed formats that allow users to publish changing content such as newcasts, blogs, and podcasts.  An RSS feed contains a summary of the content or full text from an associated website. 

RSS feeds are used by people to be aware of changing content on a particular website or group of websites automatically.  RSS feeds make it possible for users to get this updated content without having to manually go to those websites to check and see if the content there has changed.
 
To read RSS content, users would need to have software known as a "feed reader" or "aggregator".  Users would need to subscribe to an RSS feed from a particular website by entering the link of the feed into the aggregator (feed reader).  Another way to do that is to click on the RSS icon on a web browser to begin receiving the feeds they want.

The reader then checks the feeds that the user has subscribed to and downloads updated content as it finds it.
 

Blogs, Blogroll, Blogger, Blogosphere - What do they all mean?
 
Is all this talk about blogs, bloggers, and blogspheres confusing to you? Then read on.
 
Blogs are logs or journals that people put online to express their opinions, knowledge, and expertise. Think of it as an online journal that is chronologically arranged and that is visible for all to read and comment on.  Any user can write a comment and respond to the blog, thus making it an interactive tool to exchange opinions.

A Blogroll is a list of related web links to other blogs that the author of the blog reads and offers to visitors.  If a visitor finds the information of the blog interesting, he or she can check out the other links to get more information on the topic in question.

A Blogosphere refers to all blogs in the blogging community.

A Blogger is either a person who blogs or Google's hosted blog service that allows people to create blog pages and blog on those pages. 

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