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Chances are you, like us, have seen lots of stuff about RSS newsfeeds. Usually you find them flagged by a square orange button or a blue lozenge on a web page, or in the URL address bar.
This sort of thing...  
RSS feeds send you content from the chosen site automatically. Even if you’re unfamiliar with news feeds, they are becoming easy to use. Traditionally you needed to install a bespoke news reader application but most common web browsers now support feeds via built-in readers, tool bar bookmarks and custom homepages (such as 'igoogle' and 'My Yahoo'). Note, you may have to upgrade your browser software to the latest available version for RSS to function properly.
So what's the point? Well, click on the RSS buttons whenever you see them and you will be given the option to feed content to your chosen platform, as and when it's posted. For example, go to our 'WSC Daily' click on the RSS button and the 'WSC Daily' will subsequently pop up, via your chosen method, after it's posted every day. Furthermore you can have messageboard threads, or articles that you would like to monitor (such as one you've commented on) feed through too. If you use the latest Mac OS (10.5) you can also feed RSS content in to your email. There are lots of ways and means of using it. Try it out, see if you like it. Lastly for those interested, we've opted for RSS 2.0. There are other systems on the web but we thought it was better to choose a standard and stick with it. (And we were a bit intimidated by all the others.)
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