{"id":1679,"date":"2005-08-17T14:43:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2005-08-17T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T14:43:47","slug":"what_is_rss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"What is RSS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/graphics\/xml.gif\"><br \/>\nThese small xml icons are popping up all over the internet.   Clicking on them allows the reader to view a link to the site&#8217;s RSS (Really Simple Syndication) page and subscribe to them using a <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\">NewsReader<\/a>. These &#8220;feeds&#8221; allow the reader to quickly scan headlines and, if interested, view a summary (or in some cases the entire) article.  RSS is a very efficient method of reading and sharing information.   <\/p>\n<p>Sites can have many RSS feeds, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/rss\/index.html\">Channel3000<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-adv\/rss\/front.htm\">Washington Post<\/a>.    Isthmus&#8217;s Daily Page has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/daily\/node\/feed\">feed<\/a>, as does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/index.iml?Article=39464\">WisPolitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Getting Started<\/b>:<br \/>Download a NewsReader:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\">NetNewsWire<\/a> (MAC OS X) &#8211; the best\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradsoft.com\/feeddemon\/\">FeedDemon<\/a> (Windows)<\/ul>\n<p> RSS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rss-specifications.com\/rss-faqs.htm\">FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also posted a brief screencast that demonstrates my use of a RSS NewsReader (NetNewsWire).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/video\/2005\/08\/zmetrorss.html\">13MB Quicktime<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These small xml icons are popping up all over the internet. Clicking on them allows the reader to view a link to the site&#8217;s RSS (Really Simple Syndication) page and subscribe to them using a NewsReader. These &#8220;feeds&#8221; allow the reader to quickly scan headlines and, if interested, view a summary (or in some cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}