mike watkins dot ca : Help on XML Feed Syndication

About XML Feeds

Atom and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds allow you to keep easily track of, and read, content changes on this site, using any Atom / RSS compatible feed reader or aggregator Another common term for feed aggregator is News Reader.

This site supports both Atom and RSS feeds; we recommend you subscribe to the Atom feed as it provides more features.

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The Busy Person's Short List of Personal Feed Aggregators, available to users of Linux/Unix, Macintosh, and Windows operating systems:

XML Feed FAQ

What is a web feed?
A web feed is a data format used for serving users' frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation. More...
What is syndication?
A web feed is the most usual kind of web syndication. Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. This could be simply by licensing the content so that other people can use it; however, in general, web syndication refers to making Web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the website's recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts). This originated with news and blog sites but is increasingly used to syndicate other types of information. More...
What is an aggregator?
An aggregator or news aggregator or feed reader is client software that uses a web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results. More...