Dear Lord! I was talking to somebody earlier who doesn’t have an RSS reader!!! What’s WRONG with these people?

Let me explain something, ladies and gentlemen. All of your favorite sites nowadays use RSS or Atom feeds as a way of transmitting news and updates. If there’s a popular (and some not-so-popular) site that you like to visit, there’s a good chance that the site is syndicating (broadcasting) an RSS feed.

Using RSS/Atom feeds is a way of getting news from all of your favorite spots in one place. It saves bandwidth, gives you a general idea of what’s going on…and most importantly…it saves you time. You don’t have to go to each separate site, just reading the main headlines is often enough to tell you if there’s something interesting worth going for.

RSSOwl is SourceForge.net’s Project of the Month. I encourage you to give it a try if you don’t already have an RSS reader. http://my.yahoo.com also has an RSS reader available to you if you have a Yahoo! account.

Go ahead. Syndicate me.