RSS News Feeds are rapidly becoming the way to publish news and information in a timely and convenient fashion, without "pushing" email
and cluttering one's mailbox. By subscribing to a news feed, one can stay in touch with what's new without having to go to a website and examine the content looking for changes. The owner of the website publishes a news feed presenting new items of interest that one can read at one's leisure. WIthout using email. One subscribes without your email address being sent to anyone. And it's easy ... that's why ot's called Really Simply
Syndication.
How Do You Subscribe to RSS News Feeds?
By using a "news reader"—sometimes called a "news aggregator"—and it's quite easy. One of the easiest to use is the news reader of Yahoo. With a MyYahoo account, you can easily add the news feed to your personalized Yahoo page. And similarly, you can add a news feed to your personalized Google page. (There are other "news readers" available; See Other RSS News Readers below.)
Here's how you do that. Simply click on the
button to add the feed to your MyYahoo page. (Or the
button for Google, or
for AOL.) And you will be led through the very simple process. If you do not have a MyYahoo account, you will be given the opportunity to open one by Yahoo ... you just need a user ID and password, and within a minute or two, you will have our news feed up and running on your personalized Yahoo page. Whenever you visit your MyYahoo page, you will be presented with our very latest news and information.
News Alerts
If you wish, you can direct Yahoo send you an alert email whenever a new item is published. To set up alerts, after signing in to your MyYahoo account, go to http://alerts.yahoo.com/, then select "Feed/Blog" under the "Create An Alert" tab. You can then select the feed for which you want an alert in Section B. Under that, choose the frequency for alerts, and choose how you want your alerts delivered. You can even choose to have the alert sent to your mobile device.
Use Enfeedia to Read RSS News Feeds Directly
This symbol
indicates you can view the associated news feed directly using Enfeedia's news feed reader feature. Simply click that button and Enfeedia will present the news feed. And that NewsPage will also offer opportunities to subscribe to the feed as described above.
Finally, if you find yourself in a circumstance where you'd like to verbally tell someone how to find your news feed with instructions they can easily remember, simply say go to "Read a Feed dot com" (readafeed.com ...you don't even need the "http://" or "www" prefix) and enter your account name in the box. WIth one click, they will get a list of all your news feeds and have one-click access to any of them. (It's a good idea to create a memorable account name when you set up your account to make this an ultra-eay way to access your feeds.) They also will find out how to subscribe to one or more of them; every NewsPage includes a link to this How To Subscribe page and the MyYahoo and Google subscribe buttons mentioned above.
Other RSS News Readers
There are also many news readers available online and that you can download for free.To subscribe to a news feed using one of those news readers, you will need to provide the address for the news feed. The easy way to get an address for a feed is to click the
or
button associated with the feed and copy it from your browser address bar. Then paste it in as directed by the news reader you've chosen.
Browsers with Built-In RSS News Readers
If you use the Safari v2 (by Apple), Internet Explorer v 7 or the Firefox v2, you can use its built-in news reader to read a feed. All you need to do to view the feed is click the
How to get the maximum benefits from your own feed
If you are publishing a feed and want to get the maximum benefits from it, here's "must-reading": Now What?