Using RSS

This site uses RSS to allow participants to easily keep up to date on changes to the site.

If you see this icon:

This indicates that this content is available as an RSS feed, the link that this icon points to is the URL of the RSS feed.

Note: Since this is a private site you will need to authenticate your rss feeds in your news reader using your login name and password.

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.

Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:

* Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
* Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
* RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)

RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed", "webfeed", "RSS stream", or "RSS channel".

These are some recommend RSS readers.

Windows PC:

Sharp Reader
http://www.sharpreader.net

Feed Demon
http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=FeedDemon

AmphetaDesk
http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/

Mac OS:

Net News Wire
http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire

AmphetaDesk
http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/

Linux:

Straw
http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/

FireFox and Safari have built-in RSS readers that are an option for users too.

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