RSS Feed.
You
either clicked on this link cause you were wondering what the hell RSS
is, or you clicked on it cause you were like "woo-hoo finally" for all
the dancers who are glad for the feed. Hop on down to the bottom of the
page, with the link. Those of you who are scratching your heads... well
your in for something glorious and wonderful.
What
is RSS?
RSS
is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites.
Weblogs like Blogger, Live Journal and the like as well as news
syndicators such as CNN net, and PC Gamer uses the tool. But it's not
just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into
discrete items can be syndicated via including web comics, which many
have done in recent months. Once information about each item is in RSS
format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react
to the changes in an appropriate way.
To read an RSS XML feed
you need a RSS aware program called RSS Agitatators. These programs
keep track of all the RSS feeds you specify and read them. that is a
normal browser cannot read XML specified for RSS.
Why RSS?
There
are a lot of diffrent reasons why sites use RSS. BBC and other websites
use RSS to display headlines in a box, to make the content of the news
site easier to acess. Other sites like Yahoo, use RSS to quary news
feeds as well as e-mail group threads. But the most popular use of RSS
is news Agitation.
In Short A news Agitator,
is a special feed set up using RSS, to let you know the latest update
of a particular page, and you can easily access only what you want to.
Some Agitators predownload all the data as well so it makes your
searching through the site updates even easier.
MORE
INFORMATION
For
more information on RSS feeds,
I'd suggest reading XML.com's feature
or Introducion to RSS.
For a list of News Agitators, take a look at RSS Readers
THE
RSS FEED
So now your wondering what the Decypher RSS feed is. Point your
Agitator to :http://decypher.keenspace.com/rss.xml
For the record any
keenspace site, should have an RSS feed. the format for all keenspace
sites is http://name.keenspace.com/rss.xml
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