how does rss work?

Question

Hi
when we talk about rss feed and sending rss ping, what dose it mean? how do you use this service? i know there are rss services (sites), but how do you actually use them for your blog or an article? i need an over all explanation of this thing and how and why and what for kind of thing.

thank you so much. thank you in advance.

Answer 1

RSS works by having the Web site author maintain a list of notifications on their Web site in a standard way. This list of notifications is called an RSS feed. People who are interested in finding out the latest headlines or changes can check this list. Special computer programs called RSS aggregators have been developed that automatically access the RSS feeds of Web sites you care about on your behalf and organize the results for you. (RSS feeds and aggregators are also sometimes called RSS channels and RSS readers.)

Producing an RSS feed is very simple and hundreds of thousands of Web sites now provide this feature, including major news organizations such as the New York Times, the BBC, and Reuters, as well as many weblogs.