More on RSS

The following is a very good explanation of RSS for us non technically-minded from What's Next Online. Found at Diva Marketing.

A couple of interesting excerpts:

What is does:

Essentially, RSS is a technology that allows website publishers to make their headlines and summaries of their content available through a syndicated "feed" that users can subscribe to receive. Users then view the feed with the help of an RSS reader like Bloglines or Feed Demon.


Why its cool:

Manually checking every site in which you are interested is incredibly time consuming. RSS is a better way to be notified of new and changed content on multiple websites. You receive the results in a well organized way, distinct from email.


A couple of marketing / technology resources you may wish to subscribe to to get you started (other than your group members blogs and other theme-related blogs):

• slashdot
  
• Scobleizer
  
• Diva Marketing