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News Aggregators and Resources
In order to use RSS, you need a piece of software called a "news aggregator."
A quick Google search will point you to quite a few good RSS and news-aggregator resources.
What is RSS?
RSS was originally developed by Netscape as a tool for building portals that contain headlines and links to mainstream news sites. If you want to build a page that contains headlines from multiple sources—RSS is a good way of doing it.
Using an RSS aggregator, you can view an amazing amount of news extremely quickly.
RSS was designed for distributing headlines, short text excerpts, and links to Web pages. But it can be—and is—used to distribute pretty much any Web content that can be broken into pieces and distributed via an Internet pipe. There's even been some experimentation with using RSS to distribute huge multimedia files: The idea is that you subscribe to a channel and the server trickles the multimedia file to your desktop slowly, over hours, in the background.
For more background on RSS, visit:
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