RSS

Short for Really Simple Syndication. A format used to syndicate news and the content of news-like sites. Includes major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites and personal weblogs. By subscribing to an RSS feed, you are alerted to new additions to the feed since you last read it. In order to read RSS feeds, you must use a "feed reader," which formats the XML code into an easily readable format (feed readers are to XML and RSS feeds as web browsers are to HTML and web pages.