The Rss Feeds of Rotherham
What is an Rss feed and how do I use it?
Well it is suprisingly easy to get hold of one of these feeds, if you are using Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox you can subscribe to a feed straight from the browser. Click on the feed that you wish to recieve, you can have more than one if you wish by
doing this process for each feed that you require, in Internet Explorer you will now be shown the Rss feed that you are about to subscribe to then all you have to do is hit on the text that says "Subscribe to this feed" and it will add it to you respective browsers feed holding area
(IE this is located in your Favourites Folder under Feeds, and FireFox will normally add this to your quick navbar.) now when ever you want to see the latest news that you have subscribed to just go to this feed and it will tell you all the new content within them sections.
A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an Internet aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed.
In the typical scenario of using web feeds, a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program (also called a feed reader or a news reader) running on their own machines; doing this is usually as simple as dragging the link from the web browser to the aggregator. When instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content; if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically.
The kinds of content delivered by a web feed are typically HTML (webpage content) or links to webpages and other kinds of digital media. Often when websites provide web feeds to notify users of content updates, they only include summaries in the web feed rather than the full content itself.
source Wikipedia.org