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If you’ve been using the Web at all during the last eighteen months or so, you will almost certainly have seen the proliferation of advertisements of ‘RSS’ or ‘feeds’. Although many people have attempted to explain what these things actually are and why they’re useful,[[Two of the best resources for beginners to learn about RSS and the ability to subscribe to content on the Web are provided by the BBC and Dave Shea at Mezzoblue.]] I’m sorry to say that for the moment this feed thing has mostly remained the preserve of the geek. I’ve tried to encourage people to find out why RSS would be a good thing for them to use, but they’ve mostly glazed over as I begin to explain the whole thing.

So, I thought it might be helpful briefly to sum up in this article why RSS and

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