I'm sure you've seen those little orange buttons everywhere, but weren't sure what to do with them. I'd like to help, because RSS can be a great thing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically, it’s just a feed of information that you can subscribe to. The idea is, you get a piece of software called a feedreader and install it on your computer. Some programs have them built in now such as Thunderbird and I think Internet Explorer 7 has feed reading capabilities. Email programs that include feedreaders are awesome, you can add your favorite RSS feed to your email client and your feeds come in just like email.

The idea is when you subscribe to a feed, you will get notified in your feedreader anytime there is new content. This saves you the time of visiting that site daily. You can even subcribe to the comments, anytime there is a new comment, you'll get notified.

So let's say that you are on a site that you want to subscribe to, click on the orange RSS button, it will take you to a funky looking page. Copy the URL (address at the top) into your feedreader. That's it, now when that site has new information, you'll see it in your feedreader.

RSS feeds are great. You’re definately going to be seeing a lot of exciting stuff happening with RSS in the future.

I have also be posted a video which breaks it down into very easy to understand terms.

I hope this information is helpful?