Reading Roars!

You may have noticed an orange button on the right-hand sidebar with the letters RSS.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (formerly “Rich Site Summary”) and, really simply, allows you to receive a news feed for How cool is that? You can use RSS to subscribe to many other feeds, from ABCNews.com to the Xinhua News Agency, meaning that the headlines come to you. Perfect for impatient news junkies.

OK, try this. Click on the orange button:

Aargh! What’s this? A page of gobbledegook! Fear not. This is XML, a language that allows information to be shared across different systems. Look closely and you will see a tree structure revealing the headline, category and content of each article published.

To turn this page into something resembling a feed, you will need a news reader or aggregator. There are many news readers available. You can find one by carrying out a quick search on Çelik kapi jeneratörMSN or Google. Then it’s a case of adding the URL of the gobbledegook page to the news reader: http://www.readingroars.com/wp-rss2.php

You can also receive the news feed via the Firefox browser. Go to Manage Bookmarks on the Bookmarks menu, and select New Livemark on the File menu. Enter a name for the feed, such as Reading Roars!, the URL http://www.readingroars.com/wp-rss2.php and a Description. And that’s it. Headlines from will now be visible on the Bookmarks menu.

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