RSS Reader: How Fast Read News

BEN HAMMERSLEY not intend bubble. At half the morning just nine, he has already confessed ate 75 different web sites. "I have read the news headlines and read the latest articles of interest," he said. More interesting again, all that can be done in a short time: before a cup of coffee out the same morning!

"This is really helpful," said the digital writer, the Guardian. "You do not need to drop photos or images off, add layouts and a heavy blinking, but you can enjoy with fast and comfortable," he said. So you do not need to spend your morning only to distort bookmarking sites to find out the latest news.

Since finding a web browser that can display images, the only images I can not make this activity into the online experience. If you are using the web as their main source hottest news, surely you have at least 60 addresses the bookmark is accessed infrequently, or at least 30 to open the browser window at the same time not so behind the news. Making, and sometimes I also irritated.

But now there are still ways to be able to monitor news of the top New York Times, the Washington Post, BBC, sites other news, or even a web blog, the more easy. The format is easier to read and practical to enable you to scan hundreds of news without having to dispose of waste of time to open the web pages one by one.

All you need - such as the Hammersley also used - is the download readers tools (reader) RSS and install on your computer. For PC users, an editor at PC World recommend to use SharpReader. But do not worry there are hundreds of similar software that you can select according to tastes and needs.

All software is provided free of charge, although the system developers appreciate the donations from happy users. If you get error messages when trying to start (such as "The application failed to initialize properly" or "The dynamic library mscoree.dll could not be found"), try visiting the Windows Update site. Find and install the Microsoft.NET Framework so that the RSS can operate properly.

In the reader a glimpse of similar e-mail application Outlook, you can arrange headline and synopsis articles of interest. If you see any news that you want to read, click on that stay, and a window will display the news that you want to see.

When the reader already installed on the computer, go back and open a web browser sites your favorites. Most sites have a link labeled "RSS" or "XML." Some sites even have a variety of links, even on the menu in every its publications. Then take ( "cut and paste") address and to put in the reader to read the content in RSS format. After few seconds, a list of headlines that you choose will appear. Click the "Subscribe" in SharpReader if you want to add supply (feed) from these sites in the list read.

Or, you can also type a URL address of the site and SharpReader will visit the site to make sure that there are RSS feeds which is ready "sucked". If there is, it will automatically scan the contents.

However, there is also a problem. A number of sites, including the New York Times, does not display a list of all its supply of RSS in their main site, in spite of almost 20 already supply the news that can be enjoyed through the RSS format. More confusing, the number of RSS is available only through the newspaper a third party such as NewsIsFree, which is not easy to track. Do not panic, try using a search engine specific kinds of RSS Syndic8.

RSS ( "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary") that has three advantages compared to web and e-mail - the two most popular ways to read the news online for this. First, there is no ad or image that menyesaki news agency. Original news site that you actually have a number of clicks the ad, but the results of scanning RSS is far more efficient. The bloggers, for example, that do not need advertising to survive, usually to send almost all posts in RSS format.

Second, the RSS will automatically update itself with the latest items so that its contents remain fresh. You do not need to jump from one site to another or just click the Refresh button to see the latest course your favorite sites. This system will scan the Web sites in seconds and do not loading web pages individually that the process long and heavy. This method is much more simple, friendly and of course to save bandwidth.

Third, you can also arrange their own "supply" RSS news from various sites into a single data stream. You will be free from hidden agendas of the content provider site. Some even believe this method is the right solution to avoid rush-mail spam junk mail alias. The RSS can replace the position and function of the e-mail discussion group for members who are often irritated to find his inbox filled with spam.

RSS shows how the appearance of the future Internet is not just rely on e-mail and browser. The legion of computer, bloggers and website developers claim to fall in love with this feature. A web developers reveal almost all the clients at this time requested that the made current sites also provide a supply of RSS.

Until now, there were already hundreds of sites - particularly from the United States and Europe - already provides a format for the RSS news service. Of course, not just news sites that can take advantage of this method. If you're a regular eBay customers, make sure the site is in the list of RSS so you do not need to loose the best price even in a second; Amazon RSS will lets you know can quickly newest books; ITunes akan inform or albums to the latest in a list of RSS you.

One analyst, James Crabtree said, "While this may be many people who do not know how to use the correct RSS. But once he was using, I think, he will be hooked. This is an easy way to get the desired information without having to surf berlama-old to read. "

Must be recognized, sooner or later, RSS will become important icons other than the Internet and e-mail. The technical and business, this phenomenon was predicted feasible akan land into one of the important advantages in the pan. And for Internet users, RSS is a contribution in wonderfull enrich how people in accessing information from the Internet Jagat.

The text is taken from a chapter book Budi Putra, Planet Internet: Smart Network is Changing the World (Jakarta: Logicom Publications, December 2005), pp. 149-152.