What is RSS?


With Ascot Lawyers' RSS feed you can keep up to date on all the latest information and relevant legal news

RSS is a mechanism used to distribute news content and information without depending on the browser or email client. Not everyone agrees precisely what RSS stands for, but “Really Simple Syndication” is a popular choice.

What does RSS do for me?

In general it means time savings because, thanks to RSS, you stay ahead of what’s new without having to browse every site you normaly visit. An RSS reader aggregates the content for you to view in one place, this saves time and brings you the content like when you're reading a newspaper with the advantage to view only headlines. You're in control of which articles you want to read.

There are a number of these news readers (aggregators) some free and some not. You can also use online services for free such as google (on your custom google homepage - or using the google reader service), yahoo and bloglines.

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Simply click the orange logo where it says 'rss feed' and then you can subscribe to that feed.

You can also install news readers to your desktop (gadgets) and have a programme retrieve your subscribed feeds for you. There is a list of readers at rssfeeds.com.