NEW STUFF

I just added an RSS newsfeed. The link is on the left. What is this? Put simply, if you read the news from a large number of sites that offer RSS feeds then you can use one program to grab all the headlines automatically from all the sites without going to the sites themselves. On my Mac, using OSX, I downloaded the free NetNewsWire Lite (below) and "subscribed" to my site. I did that by first "right clicking" on the link to the left and "copied the link". I then ran NetNewsWire and clicked on the "subscribe" button and pasted in the link (URL) of PrebleNY. That's it. It went to my site and got the most recent 15 entries and showed me the headlines. I can then click on the one I'm interested in and it will show me the text and a link to the full story. It's really quite cool. There are two RSS feeds, one for PrebleNY and one for Not Safe For democrats.

Special pieces of software called News Aggregators or Readers can read RSS feeds, examples are:

MacOSX
AmphetaDesk
NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite
NewsMac
RadioUserland
Shrook
SlashDock
MacOS
AmphetaDesk
NewsXPress
RadioUserland
Windows
AmphetaDesk
BlogExpress
NewsGator (requires Outlook)
RadioUserland
SharpReader
Wildgrape NewsDesk

What is RSS?

Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content. Think of it as a distributable "What's New" for a site. Originated by UserLand in 1997 and subsequently used by Netscape to fill channels for Netcenter, RSS has evolved into a popular means of sharing content between sites (including the BBC, CNET, CNN, Disney, Forbes, Motley Fool, Wired, Red Herring, Salon, Slashdot, ZDNet, and more).