What is RSS … and what can I do with it?
RSS is an easy way to check your favourite websites for updates without having to visit them all. Lots of personal portal websites such as My Yahoo!, My MSN and My AOL allow you to add the 'news headlines' from your favourite sites using their RSS feeds. You can also use online feed readers such as GoogleReader or Bloglines, or you can view RSS feeds through some web browsers. Our RSS feeds can also be added to websites and blogs, to display our latest news items on your web pages as a value-added service to your visitors.
- Adding our news to your personal portal page (such as My Yahoo!, My MSN or My AOL)
- Adding our news to your web news-reader (such as GoogleReader, Bloglines, Newsburst, NewsGator or Rojo)
- Adding our news to your browser-based RSS Reader (such as Firefox, Opera or Safari)
- Adding our news to your website or blog
Adding our news to your personal portal page
If you're using My Yahoo!®...
If you're a My Yahoo! user then you can click the "+ MY YAHOO!" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your My Yahoo! page, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
If you're using My MSN...
If you're a My MSN user then you can click the "MY MSN +" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your My MSN page, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
If you're using My AOL...
If you're a My AOL user then you can click the "+ MY AOL" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your My AOL page, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
Adding our news to your web news-reader
If you're using GoogleReader...
If you're a GoogleReader user then you can click the "+ GoogleReader" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your GoogleReader page, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
If you're using Bloglines...
If you're a Bloglines user then you can click the "Sub Bloglines" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your Bloglines page, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
If you're using Newsburst...
If you're a Newsburst user then you can click the "+ Newsburst" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your Newsburst feeds, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
If you're using NewsGator™...
If you're a NewsGator user then you can click the "+ newsgator" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your NewsGator feeds, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
If you're using Rojo...
If you're a Rojo user then you can click the "+ Rojo" button (illustrated on the left) to instantly add our news feed to your Rojo feeds, keeping you up to date on our news and new releases.
Adding our news to your browser-based RSS Reader
If you're using Firefox's Live Bookmarks...
Simply click on the RSS icon in the address bar and Firefox will display the contents of the feed. Click "Subscribe now", and Firefox will create a folder of our latest news items in your Bookmarks.
If you're using Firefox's Sage extension...
Open the Sage sidebar (click Tools and Sage, or press Alt+S) and then either drag the RSS button (illustrated on the left) into your feed list, or click the magnifying glass icon to search for feeds.
If you're using Opera 8 or above...
Simply click the RSS button (illustrated on the left) and Opera will open the feed and ask you if you want to Subscribe to it — choose "Yes". You can read your subscribed feeds in Opera by clicking on Feeds then Read Feeds.
If you're using Safari...
Click the blue RSS icon in the address bar and Safari automatically displays any available RSS feed for the current site. Then bookmark the RSS feed so you can return to it later. Safari tells you when your bookmarked feeds are updated with new articles, so you get the latest news without repeatedly refreshing sites.
If you're using Internet Explorer 7...
Click the orange RSS icon in the tool bar and Internet Explorer automatically displays any available RSS feed for the current site. Click "Subscribe to this feed" to add it to your favorites.
Adding our news to your website or blog
You may display our RSS feeds on your website or blog, provided that:
- you display the supplied URL (provided in the <source> element of the feed) for each news item as a working (clickable!) hyperlink,
- you properly credit us as the source - either with the logo image we've included in the RSS code, or in text (Use of our logo is limited to the source attribution for the RSS feeds only.)
- you don't poll any single RSS feed more often than once every 60 minutes - we only update our feeds once every 24 hours, so you don't need to check them more frequently than that.*
Failure to comply with these three reasonable rules may result in your IP address being blocked from accessing our web-servers.
We reserve the right to revoke RSS syndication privileges at any time, for any reason (it's unlikely that we will, but we have to cover our backs!).
Let us know if you use the RSS feed, because we (the web developers responsible for this site) are very interested in how our feeds are being used and what we can do to make it easier for other developers to use them.