newb question about RSS feeds.

Fensta · 2 Sep 2006 at 15:50

What are they? and how do you set one up, etc

Thanks

Phate · 2 Sep 2006 at 16:03

not sure how you set one up, but an RSS feed is basically something that works with your browse in some cases, like i have an RSS feed setup with engadget, and everytime engadget post something new on their website, my feed gets updated saying its got 1 new entry i click on it and it shows me it, along with all the others, it shows it in like a list form etc, they are brilliant if you browse lots of news websites or a lot of blogs.

Fensta · 2 Sep 2006 at 16:12

Phate said:
not sure how you set one up, but an RSS feed is basically something that works with your browse in some cases, like i have an RSS feed setup with engadget, and everytime engadget post something new on their website, my feed gets updated saying its got 1 new entry i click on it and it shows me it, along with all the others, it shows it in like a list form etc, they are brilliant if you browse lots of news websites or a lot of blogs.

So would setting on up for here work??

MarcLister · 2 Sep 2006 at 16:17

Fensta said:
So would setting on up for here work??

Don't think so. When you set up RSS you need a site to offer RSS. Then you can link up to it. As far as I know, OcUK doesn't have an RSS feed to use.

If you view the BBC News site using Firefox you will see an orange icon to the far right of the address bar. This icon indicates that that site has an RSS feed that you can view.

Check out Wikipedia for info on RSS and the BBC RSS page for more info.