Better brains than I have put together some explanations of RSS feeds, but in essence, you subscribe to a feed (e.g. blog or news site) via your web browser or a feed service and get notified automatically every time a new article is posted (published). This mean that you don’t have to remember to go to a website every few days, weeks, months to see what’s new—the information is sent to you automatically.
For some simple explanations of RSS feeds, see the following websites:
- RSS in Plain English (online video)
- How to explain RSS the Oprah way (the information about Internet Explorer 7 is out of date—IE7 now does RSS feeds)
