![]() ![]() If you want to get content as it is created and shared and in a format more flexible than an email digest, however, you’ll need RSS. For some content and perhaps for your particular reading style, email digests may be a perfect fit and they’re still in use by many web sites-if you’re interested in getting daily email updated from How-To Geek, for example, you can subscribe to the daily email here. I searched open source when they stopped the official RSS feed. If a site offers an RSS feed, you get notified whenever a post goes up, and then you can read a summary or the whole post. I like Twitter and use advanced search to get the data I want. RSS Feeds are an easy way to stay up to date with your favorite websites, such as blogs or online magazines. I really liked RSS and have used it since Twitter and Facebook supported RSS feed URL. But I want to see my favorite artist and interested person. ![]() Material from the site gets packed up in a daily, weekly, or monthly digest, and fired off via email. Technology has advanced, but Im more tired. Historically, web sites mimicked analog mailing lists in order to deliver content. ![]() RSS is like bookmarking in that you flag the site to be used in the future, but instead of sitting statically in your bookmark folder, your RSS “bookmark” is an active entity that is constantly updating itself with new content from the saved source. Normally you bookmark a site and you have to go look in your bookmarks to click on the site to get new content. One of the easiest ways to envision RSS is that is is like a living bookmark file. RSS may be one of the most underutilized but incredibly useful tools around. ![]()
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