What Is RSS?

Click on any orange RSS button you see on this site to get the latest Web pages from this site. You will see orange RSS buttons many other places on the Web as well ... e.g., to get newsfeeds from CNN or BBC, or just about anything else, including news on upcoming movies and DVD releases, your favorite musician's tour updates, etc.

"RSS" means "Really Simple Syndication." But that's just a fancy way of saying that you can keep up with all the updates to this site without having to check the site every week to see "what's new." New pages and updates to old ones are automatically released through RSS which you can then read with an RSS Reader.

How do you get started?  Easy!

Download a free RSS Reader first (or skip to the bottom to learn about Web-based readers). This is special software that reads the RSS feeds. Two of many available are at: Windows RssReader or for Macintosh NetNewsWire Rss Reader.

Once have your RSS reader installed, here's all you have to do...

• Right-click (control-click for Mac users) on the orange RSS button on any page where you find it on this site or any blog or news source that interests you.
• Select Copy Shortcut ("Copy Link to Clipboard" on a Mac), and
• Paste the URL you just copied into your RSS Reader.

That's it! You'll be subscribed.

It may even be easier to use a Web-based RSS reader instead ... like Google Reader, iGoogle, My Yahoo!, My MSN. Look for any of these buttons shown below on a page on this site and click to add this site's RSS feed to that particular Web-based reader. If you don"t yet have an account, instructions are given to set one up.

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