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\nYou know, we’d be lying if we said we didn’t care if people read our blogs or not. If that were the case, we wouldn’t be wasting our time getting in front of our machines, surfing to our sites and posting entries riddled with other crap, like hyperlinks such as this<\/a> (which doesn’t go anywhere by the way) and formatting some words a certain way<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Doing these things takes time… considerably<\/em> more time than if we had just written our thoughts on a piece of paper (or a notebook<\/em> if it makes you feel better).<\/p>\n Faced with such a reality, I figured that while trying to “market” my site’s content, I\nmight as well advocate an extremely useful tool\/technology while I’m at it.<\/p>\n Friends and I were discussing how much of a godsend “View post seen in image”<\/p>\n NOTE: Before everything else, if you know what On one of the definitions, we have one of the simplest explanations:<\/p>\n It is an For those who don’t know what The W3C (WWWC) or the World Wide Web Consortium<\/strong> is pretty much the ISO<\/strong> (International Organization for Standardization) of the internet. If they agree on something, chances are, it would be de-facto web standard in time.<\/p>\n So there we have it. Indeed, that is the question. Is I enjoy surfing the web because of how much information I can find in it. But as with everyone else, I tend to frequent certain sites more often than others. For the sake of argument lets say I would like to keep myself up to date with content from these sites:<\/p>\n Now normally, if I didn’t know any better, I’d simply go to each and every<\/strong> site, each and every<\/strong> day hoping<\/em> to find some interesting updates. Now if you would visit the sites themselves, you’d notice that there are a lot of “extraneous” elements like advertisements, heavy graphics usage for the site’s layout, etc. 1 <\/sup><\/a>You’re free to try it by clicking the links above to the said sites.<\/span><\/span>RSS<\/code> was and how we are able to keep up with all our friends and aquaintances’ blogs without breaking a sweat. It was simple, really simple<\/em> syndication (pun intended).[1]: http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=define%3Arss&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8<\/a>\n“What is RSS?”<\/p>\n
\nRSS<\/code> is, then this post is NOT<\/em> for you.<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat is RSS?<\/h1>\n
RSS<\/code> can stand for [a lot of things][1]. But it’s generally accepted to mean what I mentioned earlier: Really Simple Syndication<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n
XML<\/code> format for distributing news headlines on the Web – also known as syndication.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWait a minute… XML?<\/h1>\n
XML<\/code> is, It’s another markup language<\/em> (such as HTML<\/code>).<\/p>\n\n
XML<\/code> stands for eXtensible Mark-up Language<\/strong>, a specification developed by the W3C. XML<\/code> is a pared-down version of Standard Generalised Mark-Up Language, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customised tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nRSS<\/code>ing via XML<\/code>. Basically, the operative term is syndication<\/em> – wherein a site is able to share information with other sites. RSS<\/code> is the popular medium in which content syndiation is being done nowadays.<\/p>\nWhy should I bother with RSS?<\/h1>\n
RSS<\/code> needed?<\/em> That would depend on the type of internet user you are. To answer that, I’d probably have to give an example of how I<\/em> would get my<\/em> daily “fix” of information.<\/p>\n\n