The Volleyball Newsletter

VOLLEYBALL RSS NEWSFEED

As editor of the Volleyball Newsletter, I get all sorts of volleyball related info sent each day. Lots of it gets deleted, interested items will be added to the next Newsletter etc. In order to make all this information available to readers (as soon as I receive it), I now provide a Volleyball Newsletter RSS news feed. If you don't know what a RSS newsfeed is, please see below, if you currently have a RSS news reader program, then all you need to do is to add the following link to your reader. http://www.volleyballnewsletter.com/rss/volleyball.xml

Choosing a RSS news feed Program: My favorite program is the MSN integrated Screen Saver and RSS news reader from Microsoft http://screensaver.msn.com/ You can personalise with background photos, news and weather information from MSN® or any RSS feeds from websites you choose. Search the Web and click news headlines directly from the Screen Saver. Stay connected with MSN Hotmail®, MSN Messenger, and MSN Spaces. Track how many unread Hotmail messages and current Messenger conversations you have, and display blogs and photos from your friends’ MSN Spaces.  or try... "RSS Reader" a free standalone program from http://www.rssreader.com/ (no spy or add ware) MAC users I believe already have a RSS reader built into the desktop. RSS News Feeds are available from most news providers e.g. BBC, Sky, Newspapers etc and can be personalised to receive only items that interest you.

What is RSS? (From the BBC web site) In a world heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be a drag. Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news and features delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site?  RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day.  It takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'. RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help to think of them as the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines.  How do I start using RSS feeds? In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.  Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest BBC News Entertainment stories, simply visit the Entertainment section and you will notice an orange RSS button on the left hand side.

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