What is RSS? What's a feed?
Start by thinking about email. It is a message from one person to one person, and it is delivered to a program created to read email.
Feeds are a hybrid between web pages and email. On a web page, they look like normal content. But they can be delivered - like email.
So - RSS feeds are a way to receive messages from web sites.
These messages are very flexible in their formats. You can receive them as an email, OR in an RSS Reader (like your email reader), OR they can be viewed on hundreds of other web sites. That's where the "syndication" comes in: One message is posted, but it can be republished instantly on numerous other web sites, widgets, gadgets, and, of course, to your regular old email in-box.
"RSS" stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS feeds contain headlines and hyperlinks to the Web page with additional information. If you are reading RSS and the headline interests you, just click the link from your reader and you will be on the web site that originally published that information. It's a very time efficient way to keep up with what's new.
If you are a creator of RSS, you can use it to drive more traffic back to your web site.
