RSS: An Easy-To-Use, Powerful Tool for Communicating Information
This site takes advantage of RSS technology, which allows you to post content from here and post it on your website.
What is RSS?
RSS (an acronym for "Rich Site Summary" and later coined "Really Simple Syndication") is a way for web sites to summarize their content, such as news articles, to make it available in a different view. For example, Yahoo News (RSS) headlines can be viewed like bookmarks in Firefox or viewed like email in Thunderbird.
Many web sites generate RSS feeds such as the BBC News (RSS), Yahoo News (RSS), and your favorite Blog. RSS comes in many flavors, including RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom -- and Mozilla Firefox supports them all. You can find many RSS feeds at: Technorati, Feedster, Syndic8.com, and even this site.
Live Bookmarks
Some browsers have also made some amazing innovations with RSS, like Live Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Mozilla’s Firefox browser that lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you -- saving you time.
A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see this icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks. Many people find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.
Live Bookmarks in Action
Many sites and blogs use RSS to publish their most recent headlines. The web site determines the number of headlines displayed and how often the headlines are updated. For example, headlines from Slashdot (RSS) and the BBC News (RSS) are displayed in the Bookmarks Sidebar. Clicking on a headline takes you right to the article.
Advanced Tips
Add Live Bookmarks manually: Some sites don't tell Firefox that they support Live Bookmarks, even though they actually do. If you know the URL of a site's RSS feed (url ends with .rdf or .xml), you can manually create a Live Bookmark for the site. Go to the Bookmarks menu and select 'Manage Bookmarks'. Under the 'File Menu', select 'New Live Bookmark'. Create a name for the Live Bookmark and add the URL. New articles from that site will appear as Live Bookmarks in Firefox.
Share your bookmarks: Why keep your bookmarks to yourself? Services like http://del.icio.us let you publish your own bookmarks as RSS feeds, so that other Firefox users can subscribe to your bookmarks through Live Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks and del.icio.us makes it easy to share cool sites you like with your friends.
You can also put your bookmarks into your own private RSS feed, to share your bookmarks among multiple computers.
This information can be found at Mozilla’s website, but contact the webmasters here if you're interested in using RSS to connect your website with this one!
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