How
to Subscribe to RSS News Feeds...
(from
Enfeedia by permission)
RSS
News Feeds
are
rapidly becoming the way to publish news and information in a timely
and convenient fashion, without "pushing" email and cluttering
one's mailbox. By subscribing to a news feed, one can stay in touch
with what's new without having to go to a website and examine the content
looking for changes. The owner of the website publishes a news feed
presenting new items of interest that one can read at one's leisure.
WIthout using email. One subscribes without your email address being
sent to anyone. And it's easy ... that's why it's called Really
Simply Syndication.
How
Do You Subscribe to RSS News Feeds?
By
using a "news reader"—sometimes called
a "news aggregator"—and it's quite easy. One of the
easiest to use is the news reader of Yahoo. With a Yahoo account,
you can easily add the news feed to your personalized MyYahoo page.
And similarly, you can add a news feed to your personalized Google
page. (There are other "news readers" available; See Other
RSS News Readers below.)
Here's
how you do that:
(1) Click the 
icon associated with any item in the feed to which you wish to subscribe. You will then be presented the complete feed along
with subscription buttons along the top of the page.
(2)
Click on the 
subscription button to add the feed to your MyYahoo page. (Or the
button for Google). Follow the instructions provided to you by MyYahoo
(or Google) for adding the feed to your custom page.
If
you do not have a Yahoo account, you will be given the opportunity
to open one by Yahoo. You just provide a user ID, password and email
address, and within a minute or two, you will have the news feed up
and running on your personalized MyYahoo page. Whenever you visit
your MyYahoo page, you will be presented with the very latest news
and information.
Other
RSS News Readers
There
are also many news readers available online and that you can download
for free.To subscribe to a news feed using one of those news readers,
you will need to provide the address for the news feed. The easy way
to get an address for a feed is to click the 
or 
button associated with the feed and copy it from your browser address
bar. Then paste it in as directed by the news reader you've chosen.
Browsers
with Built-In RSS News Readers
If
you use the Safari v2 (by Apple), Internet Explorer v 7 or the Firefox
v2, you can use its built-in news reader to read a feed. All you need
to do to view the feed is click the
or
button and your feed-capable browser will display it for you. You
can bookmark the feed, just as you do for a webpage, and whenever
you return to the feed, the most current items in the feed will be
presented. Check your browser to see how to get indications of new
items being posted on a feed since the last time you viewed the feed.
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