RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is used to distribute regularly-updated Internet content (such as news headlines, blogs, and wikis). People subscribe for free to RSS feeds to automatically receive content on their computers without having to constantly visit a Web site to see what is new.
See lds.org/rss for the latest listing of RSS-enabled Church Web pages.
To subscribe to RSS feeds you’ll need to download and install an RSS reader on your computer or use an online service such as MyYahoo or Google Reader.
I highly recommend bloglines (http://bloglines.com) for rss reading. Allows you to scan your feeds like reading a newspaper rather than an e-mail program.
On the mac, NetNewsWire is the best app for RSS feeds that I’m aware of. Easy to use, visually appealing, and rich in features.
This is great. Hopefully podcasts will be next!
BTW, I see that autodiscovery of the feeds hasn’t been added to the website. Is that likely to be added soon?
RSS autodiscovery is the concept of putting the feed URL in a tag in the of the document so browsers can automatically find it. See http://www.petefreitag.com/item/384.cfm for more info.
The Web site ldswebguy.com is already set up for autodiscovery. If you view the HTML, you’ll notice three links to the Feedburner feed within the of the document. There’s one each for RSS 2.0, RSS 0.9, and Atom. (They all point to the same Feedburner feed because Feedburner automatically switches formats based on what the client requests.) When you visit an auto-discovered enabled site with Firefox, IE 7, or Safari, a small RSS icon is displayed in the address bar.
We have not yet set up autodiscovery for LDS.org. That will be a future enhancement (not yet scheduled).