What is RSS?
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, which is techn ical jargon for a format that can deliver to you regularly changing content from the web.
Many news sites, weblogs and online publishers now syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to keep people up to date.
In short RSS is an electronic postman that delivers directly to your desktop the latest updates on topics of your choice, or from website of your choice, as soon as the content is updated or changed.
RSS is ideal for people visiting the Senator's site as it allows users to reliably follow an issue which may run over several weeks or months.
For those with an interest in a particular topic eg: "Health" RSS negates the need for you to have to keep returning to the site in order to remain updated.
Simply follow the links below to set up your own RSS service.
Aggregators (News Readers/Feed Readers)?
A feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply as an aggregator, is a program the web user installs which aggregates syndicated web content for multiple sources such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing.
Micosoft recommends various News Readers available for download, which can be found here: Microsoft Windows Recommendations. Apple recommends NetNewsWire.
You may also use a web-based news aggregator like www.live.com which means you won't need to install anything and you can start using RSS feeds immediately.
If you are using Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2 you will find a built-in aggregator under the favorites tab in Internet Explorer and Live Bookmarks in Firefox.
Senator Guy Barnett's Media RSS feeds
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