Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. That's the way most people interact with most of the internet, by manually visiting web sites. To get new content, videos, tutorials, and other material from How-To Geek, you open your browser and visit How-To Geek's main page. You could visit the web site in a traditional manner. To highlight the benefit of RSS, let's look at the three ways you could interact with How-To Geek. Accessing these RSS feeds is free and many popular and robust feed readers (which we'll talk about more in a moment) are also free. This feed can be subscribed to by anyone with internet access and an appropriate tool called a feed reader. RSS allows web sites to push out content in a standardized format commonly called a feed. Guha to serve as a content delivery system for the My.Netscape portal. Originally called RDF Site Summary (later renamed to Rich Site Summary and then Real Simple Syndication), the first incarnation of RSS was the product of Netscape developers Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. In 1999 very early implementation of RSS came along and shook up how content was delivered to site subscribers. If you want to get content as it is created and shared and in a format more flexible than an email digest, however, you'll need RSS. For some content and perhaps for your particular reading style, email digests may be a perfect fit and they're still in use by many web sites-if you're interested in getting daily email updated from How-To Geek, for example, you can subscribe to the daily email here. Material from the site gets packed up in a daily, weekly, or monthly digest, and fired off via email. Historically, web sites mimicked analog mailing lists in order to deliver content. RSS is like bookmarking in that you flag the site to be used in the future, but instead of sitting statically in your bookmark folder, your RSS "bookmark" is an active entity that is constantly updating itself with new content from the saved source. Normally you bookmark a site and you have to go look in your bookmarks to click on the site to get new content. One of the easiest ways to envision RSS is that is is like a living bookmark file. RSS may be one of the most underutilized but incredibly useful tools around.
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