About RSS Feeds

It saves you visiting web pages on the off-chance anything new has appeared. Information is delivered as a file called an RSS feed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. RSS files (stands for “Really Simple Syndication”) contain short descriptions of a list of things: diary entries, speeches, etc. and are formatted to be readable by computer programs which link to the full version of the content on a website. An orange rectangle with the letters XML or RSS is often used as a link to a site’s RSS feed.

You can use a program called a news reader to store the locations of RSS feeds, and each time one is updated - with new diary entries or speeches - you can easily see what’s new. Popular RSS readers are:

Sharpreader or RSS Bandit (both free) for Windows or NetNewsWire Lite for Macs.

Bloglines is an online RSS reader. One with some more features costing about £20 is FeedDemon.

The Trysordy site has an RSS Feed for its Latest News. Simply Click this link to add it to your favourite RSS reader.