Choose a newsreader (aggregator) to organize and read your content.

Note that most modern web browsers have integrated RSS newsreaders (IE 7/IE 8 and Firefox 3) but Internet Explorer 6 and earlier do not have integrated RSS newsreaders and you will need to obtain, install and configure a stand-alone or web-based RSS newsreader.

You then subscribe to the website from which you want to receive content, and the information will be delivered automatically to your RSS newsreader. To receive RSS feeds, you need an RSS newsreader. Once a user adds an RSS site to his or her list of news feeds, the information appears at specified times (e.g., hourly, daily, weekly) within the window of the newsreader. A newsreader alerts users when new content is detected, and it tracks read and unread content. To read RSS files and subscribe to news feeds, a user must install newsreader software-also known as a news aggregator-which is an application that monitors websites that contain RSS files. Users may then skim titles and descriptions of articles and choose to ignore the information, read a summary, or view the original source document via the URL link. With RSS, users can subscribe to specific news feeds to monitor lists of publications as they are updated. RSS is an XML-based technology designed to summarize and index publications posted on the Web into a customized format that includes a title, a concise description of an article, and a URL link.

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