

There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features – however a good place to start is with a an easy to use web based ones like Feedly. Get an RSS Reader – The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to hook yourself up with an RSS Feed Reader. At first I found it a little strange to make the change from bookmarking to RSS but I found that when I started that I just couldn’t stop. Let me say right up front that I’m not the most technically savvy guy going around – but even I can use RSS. How RSS actually technically works is probably a lesson for another day but the key today is for you to understand why it’s good and how to use it. It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates. I find the ‘subscription’ description helpful. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to. RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published. RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time.

What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.

