Blogs and RSS - Why Do I Need This Stuff?

April 8, 2009

If you’ve been under a rock for the last year or so it’s
possible you might not have heard about blogs and RSS feeds.
If you’re like most of us, you’ve heard the buzz but might
not’ve known what to make of it or what to do with it.
Here’s some answers.

First RSS feeds. RSS, depending on who you ask, stands for
Really Simple Syndication. This is a technology that enables
you to bring fresh, constantly updated material (feeds) into
your site. The attraction of this is obvious. Sites need
content, the fresher the better. Search engines love new
content, hence the excitement about being able to pipe in
extremely targeted feeds directly into your site. The
implementation of this is not as difficult as one might
imagine, and the choices for content are ever-burgeoning.
You can find a feed for almost anything, and if you can’t,
you can create your own and syndicate it all over the web.
The possibilities are mind-boggling. End-users must have the
capability to read these feeds, but there are free feed
readers all over the place and the new generation of
browsers will have this built in. Baca Lanjutanya..