RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest events, news headlines and articles in one place, the instant they're published, without having to remember to visit each individual site every day.

RSS stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'. RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help to think of them as the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines.

So how do you use an RSS feed? There are a few options:

1. Download software designed specifically for managing RSS content.
2. Use of a web-based service to manage and view your feeds in a traditional web browser
3. A browser plug-in that enables you to manage and view RSS feeds in a sidebar window