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    Default Whats your RSS Reader and fav feeds?

    In response to a question by Willy, I decided to start this thread.

    Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia
    RSS is an acronym for:

    * Really Simple Syndication, a family of XML based web-content distribution and republication (Web syndication) protocols primarily used by news sites and weblogs.
    o the Rich Site Summary is also known as RSS 0.91, 0.92 and RSS 2.x (although many weblog feeds are full-text, not summaries)
    o the RDF Site Summary is based on Netscape's short-lived RSS 0.90, which used the W3C Resource Description Framework Standard; this is also known as RSS 1.x
    o sometimes, by casual (though incorrect) use, alternative syndication protocols, such as Atom (standard).
    Its a feature offered by many sites that regularly update their information. It allows you to pull headlines and summaries to view in an RSS reader or display using a ticker. The headines/summary contains links to the full articles. So you can scan through and read only what you want without having to browse multiple sites and have multiple tabs open just to get your news fix

    As the definition from Wikipedia shows, there are a number of different protocols/standards that are just stuffed under the banner of RSS (sometmes incorrectly so). But most RSS readers now support all of them, so its really of little consequence what you want to call it.

    I use Sage (a Firefox plugin) to read my feeds.

    And here are my favourite feeds:
    http://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml
    http://www.macnn.com/macnn.rss
    http://apple.slashdot.org/apple.rss
    http://www.thinksecret.com/rss.xml
    http://gmail.google.com/gmail
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline...age/rss091.xml
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonlin...rds/rss091.xml
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonlin...ket/rss091.xml
    http://www.distrowatch.org/news/dw.rdf
    http://www.linuxjournal.com/news.rss
    http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/syndication/rssfull.pl
    http://linux.slashdot.org/linux.rss
    http://osnews.com/files/recent.rdf
    http://www.wired.com/news/feeds/rss2/0,2610,3,00.xml
    http://slashdot.org/index.rss
    http://arstechnica.com/news/rss2.0.rdf
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.rss
    Last edited by nder; Jan 16, 2005 at 12:25 PM.
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    Default Re: Whats your RSS Reader and fav feeds?

    i use the one in Opera 7.6...i get feeds from sites like anandtech.com and engadget.com
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    Default Re: Whats your RSS Reader and fav feeds?

    Nice info, wanted to know this a long time ago.
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