
News organizations frequently offer an RSS feed version of their content, for example. For example, there are almost 500 posts at this blog, but only the most recent 25 posts appear in the RSS feed.īlogs regularly have RSS feeds, and so do other kinds of sites. The contents of the blog change as I add new posts, but the RSS file address stays the same, with new content being added to the feed, and old content being aged off. If you are curious to see what an RSS file looks like, here is the RSS file for this blog. Because of the way the file is structured, it is then possible for that content to be redisplayed in other forms and in other places. Put simply, RSS is a way to publish the contents of a website in the form of a structured text file.
