RSS day today!

Today is RSS Awareness day.



RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website [RSSDay.org, What is RSS? http://rssday.org/ Accessed 1st May, 2008].

You can subscribe to this Blog's RSS Feed to be automatically notified when the Blog is updated.

Go to http://rssday.org to find out more and watch Commoncraft's excellent RSS in Plain English screencast.

RSS simplified

Tired of your daily (when you can find the time!) visits to web-based news sites to keep up to date with with what's happening in the world and your profession? Why not use RSS instead?

RSS (Real Simple Syndication) can deliver news to you, whether it be from news sites such as ABC Online, or from Blogs.
To find out more about it, how it can benefit you, and what you have to do to set it up, take a look at this short video from Commoncraft. It explains all you need to know about RSS in Plain English, in under 4 minutes.