About Syndication and RSS Feeds
  • What is RSS and what does it mean? What RSS stands for is not always agreed upon, but its most common definition is "Really Simple Syndication".  Its a common way to publish frequently changing web content - such as news headlines or blogs.  An RSS document - commonly called an RSS feed - contains the web page content. The RSS feed is simply web pages designed to be read by computers rather than by people.  This allows you to add the JournalChatter content to your own web pages. 

  • Why would I want to subscribe to the JournalChatter feed? Subscribing to an RSS feed allows you to see web site updates without going directly to the web page. It allows you to keep up with website changes automatically - without having to check the site manually. You can display the RSS feed on your own, customized, web site and can be alerted to any changes automatically.

  • How do I subscribe to the JournalChatter feed? To subscribe to the JournalChatter RSS feed, you will need to click on the orange RSS button.  This button is found on the side bar under the Syndication header (near the bottom of the side bar).

  1. Clicking the RSS button brings you to the Feedburner website.  This is a common place for news outlets and blogs to post their own RSS Syndication. 
  2. On the displayed page, you will see a Subscribe Now! box that displays many icons allowing you to subscribe to the JournalChatter RSS feed and display it in your personalized Yahoo!, AOL, Google, etc web page. 
  3. By clicking one of these icons, the JournalChatter RSS feed will be added to the content of the button clicked. 
  4. For example, if you frequently go to Yahoo.com and would like to subscribe to the JournalChatter RSS feed, you would click on the Yahoo! button. By doing this, your Yahoo web page will display the JournalChatter content as it changes. You can monitor the JournalChatter website for updates without going directly to the JournalChatter website homepage.
  • Why would I need an RSS Reader? An RSS reader is necessary because, as stated above, the RSS feed is designed to be read by computers - not people.  The feed itself is not organized in a way that you or I would like to read it.  An RSS Reader takes this RSS feed and makes it readable to us, formating it for people to read.