If you are like many people then you have likely shifted to reading most of your news online. The amount of information available online is vast and it can be difficult to navigate all of the available resources. If you find yourself in this position then you are likely interested in a way to simplify your news and information discovery process. Fortunately this is a common problem and so solutions have been developed.
Most people will have several news sites, blogs, and other sites that they visit on a regular basis. These sites will have frequent updates and so you will want to check back periodically to see if new updates have been posted. This will become tedious after awhile and so you may want to be automatically notified when new posts are made. This is the role that RSS plays.
The feeds are published with the help of RSS or really simple syndication. With the help of XML, which is a machine-readable format, the site is updated and published. RSS helps you to subscribe and get all these updates in one place so that the headlines and descriptions can be browsed from your favorite news sources. This will help you to choose the one which you are interested to read fully.
The beauty of this is that you can stay on top of a very large number of news sources from one place and you do not have to worry about forgetting a source. You simply add the address of your site to your feed reader and it will aggregate all the news for you. Many options exist in terms of feed readers and you can either pick a piece of software you install on your computer or you can use a web-based reader.
If you publish comment you will also want to learn how to publish your feed so that your audience can stay on top of your site. Most modern blogging software will provide you with the needed extensions to publish your feed. Little or no work should be required on your end besides simply enabling this functionality.
Information overload is a very serious and real problem. Aggregating your news in this way can greatly assist you in managing information overload as you will be able to receive the news you care about in one place and you can quickly scan your incoming news for articles you want to explore in greater depth.