What is RSS?

What is RSS?

RSS — which stands for Really Simple Syndication — is an easy way to get the latest news delivered right to your desktop. When a new blog post, article, job listing or issue of Rights Now is posted, RSS feeds can automatically notify you.

How do I use RSS?

The first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks your RSS feeds and delivers any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different news readers available, many of which are free or low-cost, and some of which are web pages themselves and some of which you can download as an application on your computer. Furthermore, some web browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, have functionality which automatically picks up RSS feeds for you.

• Some web-based news readers are: Google, Bloglines, My Yahoo!
• Some downloadable news readers are: Awasu, Newzcrawler, Newsfire (MAC)
• Some browsers that act as news readers are: Firefox, Opera, Safari (Mac)

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive.

Then follow the instructions in your news reader. You'll need to copy and paste the URL for the UUSC RSS feed (in the right column) into the appropriate place in your RSS reader.

More information

Here are some helpful articles on web feeds and RSS:

• Web feeds 101 (Feedburner.com)
• How to read RSS (CNET.com article)
  
• RSS file format (Wikipedia)

We hope to be adding more feeds soon. If you need more information, or if you have a suggestion for what RSS feeds UUSC should provide, please contact UUSC's web administrator.