The RSS feed is a simple method of streaming basic text across to a so-called RSS news reader.
This has become really successful for news publishers and "selling adds" (such as Loot, Den Blaa Avis, Friday-Ad) where content is constantly updated and thus it is more important to bring the latest messages across than flashy photos etc.
If the user is interested, he can usually click on the header and be taken directly to the publishers site. With Google as mentioned below, this means you can have dussins of RSS feeds of whatever takes your fancy on your personalised desktop.
The most popular readers are myYahoo and Plucks.
My favorite is the Google personalised home: (Point A applies for whatever you choose).
A) Click on the RSS feed link here to the left. Copy the URL (page address) to clipboard.
B) Log in to http://www.google.com
C) Click on personalised home in the top right corner
D) Click on Add content in the top left corner
E) Within Create a section, paste the URL from our website and you will ALWAYS know whats boiling.
