This post provides a brief overview of RSS, and how you can use RSS to be notified whenever new content is published on this blog.



RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is a technology for delivering updates about changes to web content.

It allows users such as yourself to be notified whenever new content is published on a website, without having to regularly visit the website to check for updates.

Many websites (including this one) use an RSS feed to publish information about updated content as it is published on the website.



The most common way to use an RSS feed is to use an RSS Reader.

RSS readers come in several flavours - either a stand-alone application that periodically checks subscribed RSS feeds for updates, or a web-based service such as Feedly or The Old Reader.

When you come across a website where you want to keep track of updates, and it has an RSS feed, you can subscribe to the RSS feed using your RSS reader, and you'll then be notified whenever updated content has been published.

Websites that provide an RSS feed typically show this using the recognisable RSS symbol (see above) on the page somewhere (this blog has the RSS icon at the top left of each page). Many browsers will recognise the presence of an RSS feed and will show an RSS icon in the address bar.

To subscribe to this blog using an RSS reader, you'll need to add the RSS feed URL to your RSS reader.



As an alternative to using an RSS reader, many RSS feeds also allow you to subscribe to the feed via email. Whenever updated content is published to the website, you'll then receive an email notifying you of that content.

To subscribe to this blog via email, you can either use the subscribe via email link shown at the top left of each page, or you can enter your email address in the form below.

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