Experience the RSS and Podcasting

To access information, we have two ways. The traditional way requires you to go out to look for the information you want, while the new way is to wait for the information to come to you. Wait a minute, did I say wait? No, the Rich Site Summary (RSS) would not require you to wait. In fact, the information that you might be looking for is constantly being updated to make sure that you receive the latest news. RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.


RSS feed icon

So this is how you do it:
1. Set up a Google account at Google.com/reader
2. Go to your favorite sites
3. Copy the url
4. Go back to Google reader and click on add a subscription
5. Paste the url
6. Add
I did it! And now whenever I want news from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and information about Ellen Degeneres’s latest show, all I have to do is to log into my Google Reader and I get everything (maybe more) that I need to know.



A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication. The RSS feed icon is commonly used to indicate the Web feed for a podcast.