Friday, 28 March 2008
That's right people - we have an RSS news feed, and Michael is a subscriber.
What does this mean? You ask. What is an RSS feed?
What are you talking about and who the hell is Michael Marks?
Well, Michael is a man, friend and a smart guy. The latest proof of his intelligence is his recent subscription to our news feed
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content including, but not limited to, blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a “feed” or “web feed” or “channel”) contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.
RSS content can be read using software called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader” or an “aggregator”. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed’s link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.
The news feed doesn’t contain any of the pretty pictures that you see on the regular news page but clever folk like Michael don’t need pictures to keep them amused, in fact the pictures he builds in his head are far more impressive than any nuber of pixels could construe.
So Michael Marks is a smart guy in the know - and one of the first people to see this article, which as you may have guessed, is dedicated to him. And the lovely La Claire.
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