Today I thought I would talk about one of my favorite internet technologies... RSS. RSS explained via www.whatisrss.com is: "(Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it". No jumping from site to site to get your news latest blog entries, sport stories, or gadget reviews, and media content. And whats even better about it is that almost everyone supports it.You can take almost any site's RSS feed put this into an application like an RSS reader and from the application read a majority of the content provided by that site. Some of these application include Amphetadesk, ReadAir, FeedReader, and my personal favorite Google Reader. I could write a whole post to GoogleReader as I believe it is the best RSS reader today, with the ability to send directly to Facebook, search your feeds, and off-line sync as just some of the better features.
Lets take a look at this blog for example. I've enlarged the end of the address bar so it's easier to see, but you notice that same little icon for RSS up there (in red). If you were to click on it depending on your browser you can subscribe to my feed and then if I have a new post you are notified or can see the latest in a list. No jumping to the website and waiting to load the whole site just to see there is an article that you didn't want to read. This becomes very helpful with a news site like CNN.com where you man not want to see the entire site but just want to look at headlines/new stories as they come in.
This type of online media aggregation has been my primary source for news for the past year with decent success. I'm able to find and discover something new quickly that I'm interested in a short amount of time. Where else would I find great clips like this french tv spot.
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