What is rss?

Can someone explain to me exactly what RSS is, I just don't get it....

What is rss?
RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.





Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.
Reply:RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically, if you sign up for it, it will notify you when a website has updated it's content. That way you don't have to waste time checking back all the time.
Reply:Simply put, they are news feeds that you read in an RSS viewer/browser. You can subscribe to them, like you would a newspaper.
Reply:RSS is an XML-based format (using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) - a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web) that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link. RSS allows a person's computer to fetch and understand the information, so that all of the lists that person is interested in can be tracked and personalized for them. ...





"RDF Site Summary, or Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication – A lightweight XML format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web"