Around the world there are thousands of web sites providing news and regularly updated content. It therefore becomes difficult for an individual to track these updates and keep informed of all the latest changes.
Therefore to help users, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows content developers to feed information to users about the latest changes/news on their site.
Users can 'subscribe' to any RSS feed using a news reader. Each news reader is different but typically it will inform the user when new articles appear on the feed or content is updated.
How do I subscribe?
You will need a news reader to be able to subscribe to our RSS Feed. Details of some of the most popular are contained within our RSS Feed.
Want to know more?
The BBC has an excellent introduction to RSS, here.