What exactly is an RSS feed and how/why would you use one?

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What is an RSS feed? Why would I use one?

Pretty basic question about internet technology: What is an RSS feed? Why would I use one?

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The biggest advantage RSS has over, say, an e-mail list, is that the reader is in total control. When...

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Can I use the RSS feed area to feed other 360 pages?

I see at the bottom of my friends 360 blog the link for an RSS feed. I copied location and pasted in the "edit feeds" page just like I did for the BBC news and NPR feeds. Yet, my friends' blog does not show up as one of my feeds. Is Yahoo too...

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Well I know that if you go to Settings Blog settings page down where you see Publish site feed When...

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How do I use an RSS Feed on my Blog? What does it do?

I was told it was good wisdom to have a RSS feed on my blog but I am new to them. Can you please give me some advice? And where I can find one? Thanks!

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I use http://www.fantasyfanbase.com for all my breaking fantasy news. try that instead.

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An RSS feed lists new things on a website. Most of the time this concerns new posts (articles) on a...

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Please recommend an RSS-to-email service. Criteria within.

RSS-to-email: In which I lament the late, lamented RSSfwd, and look for a replacement service. I’m looking for an RSS-to-Email solution to replace my beloved, late and lamented RSSfwd. I’ve tried a few services since...

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FeedMyInbox seems to work for me.

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How to build RSS feed for a site with a daily column

Hi - I'm in charge of andrewtobias.com, a site hosting a daily column, and need to add a RSS feed to the site. The site does not use any of the standard blogging tools for content managements but a custom system (one that enables the author to submit...

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marcfest-ga: Thanks for your Question! RSS feeds are very useful for monitoring websites where the...

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Can I get Twitter feeds into Google Reader without a feed's posts being bunched together?

Can I get Twitter feeds into Google Reader without a feed's posts being bunched together? I use Google Reader, and generally like it. But there's one thing I don't like about it: I have a few Twitter feeds in there, and they get "bunched up"...

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I think to keep API calls down Twitter only refreshes their RSS feed at specified intervals instead...

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Best way to set up RSS for a party-paywalled radio show?

I have a question about how best to use RSS feeds for a subscribers-only, paywalled podcast. I'm an open Web kind of guy with an aversion to paywalls, but one of my clients had me set up one. It restricted access to about half of the weekly show's MP...

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You can only put free podcasts on itunes. Create two feeds if you want to list anything on there. The...

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How to get my iPhone to read a password protected RSS feed?

Anyone know of a way to read password protected RSS feeds on the iPhone or iPad? Using Typepad, I have a password-protected blog where I post briefings for my boss, who is a public official. My boss wants to be able to use the blog's RSS feed on his...

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How about NetNewsWire? (Warning: link might launch iTunes) The mobile version has mixed reviews (compared...

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