What is RSS?

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary". It is a way of notifying users of regularly updated content (e.g. news headlines, blog entries, podcasts, table of contents of online publications) on web sites. Typically, an RSS feed contains a list of latest available headlines, summaries of the articles and links pointing back to the full articles. By subscribing to RSS feeds published by your favourite web sites, you can keep track of updates of their contents without the need for visiting the web sites one by one.