Pauly S
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how do these work?
anyone know in english please...thnx
anyone know in english please...thnx
RSS feeds
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if you have a specific thing your interested in every google search that throws up that string of words will be delivered to you
so say for instance the tag string (key words are)
+,gordon brown,+ evertime his name makes the news or on a web or a connected server you get the content sent to you.
it's very clever if your keeping a cutting board on someone
so say for instance the tag string (key words are)
+,gordon brown,+ evertime his name makes the news or on a web or a connected server you get the content sent to you.
it's very clever if your keeping a cutting board on someone
ILMV
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Right then, here's my explanation.
You are a fan of a website, lets say the BBC News for Kent, this website updates regularly and you check it every hour/day/weekend to catch up on the latest stories. The problem is you've got to do all the work, go to the site, find the articles you haven't read etc etc (I know that's not actually a lot of work, but we live in a lazy world
).
To help you, the BBC (and plenty of other sites) provide their content not only in their normal website format, but also as an RSS feed, this feed contains data that to the untrained eye is probably unreadable, but paired with an application called an RSS reader can (if you wanted it to) change how to view these websites.
One of the most popular RSS readers is Google Reader, you sign up just like you would with any site and add your RSS feeds to it, you can use the build in search to find the feeds you're interested in (like BBC Kent) and subscribe to them. Now, instead of going back to the BBC Kent website to check the latest news, you log into Google Reader and read it there.
Any new articles will be listed and old articles that you have already read will either be faded out or hidden depending on your personal preference.
Q: but how do I know when a website has an RSS feed?
Well, you'll see an icon similar to this!
The BBC have their own little article about RSS, give it a read
.
Good luck!
You are a fan of a website, lets say the BBC News for Kent, this website updates regularly and you check it every hour/day/weekend to catch up on the latest stories. The problem is you've got to do all the work, go to the site, find the articles you haven't read etc etc (I know that's not actually a lot of work, but we live in a lazy world
).To help you, the BBC (and plenty of other sites) provide their content not only in their normal website format, but also as an RSS feed, this feed contains data that to the untrained eye is probably unreadable, but paired with an application called an RSS reader can (if you wanted it to) change how to view these websites.
One of the most popular RSS readers is Google Reader, you sign up just like you would with any site and add your RSS feeds to it, you can use the build in search to find the feeds you're interested in (like BBC Kent) and subscribe to them. Now, instead of going back to the BBC Kent website to check the latest news, you log into Google Reader and read it there.
Any new articles will be listed and old articles that you have already read will either be faded out or hidden depending on your personal preference.
Q: but how do I know when a website has an RSS feed?
Well, you'll see an icon similar to this!
The BBC have their own little article about RSS, give it a read
.Good luck!
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