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RSS Feed IconOf Zen and Computing offers an RSS feed, allowing any reader to automatically subscribe to its latest content. What is an RSS feed? How do you subscribe to a website? Glad you asked…

An RSS feed is a technology that allows a web site to syndicate its content. RSS is a machine-readable file format, making it possible for all sorts of software to easily keep track of a site’s latest content.

Do you have a handful of web sites that you visit often, but wish there was an easier way to keep track of them? RSS is that easier way. By using a program called a “feed reader”, or an “aggregator”, the latest content on all of your favorite web sites will come to you. Tediously clicking through you bookmarks is a thing of the past — just log into your feed reader and everything is there, waiting for you.

There are a lot of feed readers around; Of Zen and Computing endorses Google Reader. Once you get the hang of using Google Reader, you’ll be amazed at how little time it takes to pop into the program and catch up on your favorite web sites.

No matter what feed reader you use, it’ll ask you for the address of each feed you wish to subscribe to. The Of Zen and Computing RSS feed is located at http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfZenAndComputing RSS Feed Icon

If you’re curious and want to know more about the RSS file format, check out “A non-technical explanation of RSS“.