Information Technology

What is RSS? RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS is used by (among other things) news websites, weblogs and podcasting. Web feeds are widely used by the weblog community to share the latest entries' headlines or their full text, and even attached multimedia files.

A program known as a feed reader or aggregator can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds.

Web-based feed readers require no software installation and make the user's "feeds" available on any computer with Web access. On Web pages, web feeds (RSS or Atom) are typically linked with the word "Subscribe", an orange rectangle , or with the letters or or .

For additional information on RSS, click here.

RSS Feed Websites

• Rockefeller University Newswire
• C|Net
• CNN
• National Weather Service
• N.I.H.
• NY Times
• Wired
• Yahoo! News
• RSS Network: Easily find topic specific RSS feeds by searching or navigating RSS Network's directory.

RSS Clients

If you need a RSS reader, you can obtain one via one of the following vendors:

Stand-alone clients

PC:

• Awasu
• FeedReader
• RSSReader
• Thunderbird
  • For instructions on how to set-up RSS feeds using Thunderbird, click here.

• NetNewsWire Lite (scroll to the bottom of the page for the free version)
• Newsfire
• Thunderbird
  • For instructions on how to set-up RSS feeds using Thunderbird, click here.

• Firefox:Windows & Mac

  Note:Users will need to use the Live Bookmarks feature with Firefox. Live Bookmarks is special type of bookmark that acts as a folder to contain the links in a feed. You can create a Live Bookmark by visiting a site with a feed, clicking on the Live Bookmark icon in the Location Bar, and selecting the feed you wish to use.

  For instructions on how to enable and add RSS feeds to Firefox, click here.

• Opera: Windows & Mac
• Safari: Mac Only with Tiger (10.4.x) OS
  • For instructions on how to enable and add RSS feeds to Safari, click here.