RSS is a program which allows you to receive frequently updated digital content like blogs, podcasts and news feeds. Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators". Users subscribe to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it was checked, and, if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.
RSS stands for Really Simple Sindication (RSS 2.0). The language that is used to write RSS is known as XML (Extensible Markup Language).
RSS is important to the user for easy access to the source that they subscribe to. It is also important because this enables the subscription of multiple sites (usually topics of your interest) without you going to check on each and every one of them manually.
I have set up Google Reader. I picked it because it has a better interface than bloglines, it keeeps old items (grey out); so that you can always scroll down someone's feed to remind yourself of context. I will write more after a while when I'm used to it and get the hang of it.
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