Perhaps you’ve heard of RSS. It stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it allows websites like blogs, newsletters, and news sites to make their content available in “feeds” for outside services called “RSS readers” or “feed readers”. Far from being the new hotness attracting glitzy feature stories in tech media or billions in venture funding, RSS has been around for 25 years.
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I’ve been heavily using RSS for over a decade, and it’s a travesty more people aren’t familiar with it.
Molly White
Curate your own newspaper with RSS (citation needed)
Scott Boehmer 