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How can you not love back in skinny jeans's de-techified explanation of RSS?
But first, to "subscribe" to a website or blog's RSS feed simply means that you are telling that website or blog, "Yes please. Send me your story headlines." It's like subscribing to a magazine or newsletter.
[via digital media minute]
I was explaining RSS to my mom last weekend as a radio station along these lines: "You can tell an RSS aggregator to look for updates on certain sites so you don't have to go to the individual sites to read it… Kind of like how NPR sends out a signal and you ask your radio to look for that signal so you don't have to go to their studio to hear what they're saying."
