I’ve just found out that 1st May is RSS Awareness Day! I’m aware that most people I know, outside of the tech/blogging sphere, don’t use RSS or are even aware what RSS is, so I’m quite pleased that RSS Awareness Day exists to promote it.

For the complete lowdown on RSS Awareness Day go to www.rssday.org, where you can find out what RSS actually is, what is can do and how it can benefit you.  For a quick primer, read this quote from the site:

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website.

The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content.

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