RSS explained

What are News feeds?

News feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest headlines as soon as they are published, without having to visit the sites you have taken the feed from to check. Feeds are also known as RSS, which most people say stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’.

How do I use them?

In general, the first thing you need to start using news feeds is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that automatically checks the feeds you have chosen to monitor and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. We recommend www.bloglines.com as a simple to use browser based news reader.

Subscribing to Chris Kaday's news feed

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do to subscribe to the my newsfeed is click the orange RSS logo on the left hand side. Once you have clicked on the button don’t be put off by the code that you see, the important part is the address, called a URL, of the page. You can drag the URL of the feed into your news reader, cut and paste the same URL into a new feed in your news reader or, as with Bloglines, simply use the ‘Sub with Bloglines’ button that you can add to your favourites.

Some other news readers you might like to try follow:

Windows:
Newz Crawler
FeedDemon
Awasu

Mac OS X:
Newsfire
NetNewsWire

Web:
My Yahoo!
NewsGator

Browser:
Mozilla Firefox