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News & Information - RSS
What is RSS?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" and it is a dialect of XML that was created in the late 1990s to allow lists of information, known as "feeds", to be published by content producers and subscribed to by readers. The availability of an RSS news feed is usually indicated by the presence of one of the following buttons:  or  .
RSS is commonly used to pull in content for news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them. Even web browsers, like Mozilla's Firefox, can automatically keep track of these updates for you, so you always know when new content has been added to your favorite sites. Instead of constantly checking Web pages for changes and additions, Firefox's Live Bookmark delivers updates to you as soon as they are available.
PediaLink reads external RSS Feeds and publishes its own as well.
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How Do I Subscribe?
In order to use this service, you will need to download an RSS reader. An RSS reader is a software program that automatically gathers the RSS feeds you select and aggregates them on your desktop or on a customized Web site (e.g., My Yahoo! or Bloglines).
Many RSS readers are available, and most of them are free. Additionally, newer versions of some Web browsers (e.g., Firefox and Safari) now support RSS. The Academy does not endorse any particular RSS reader or Web browser and cannot provide technical support for RSS reading—you must download and install at your own risk. For a list of RSS readers, please click here: http://blogspace.com/rss/readers
In order to subscribe to an RSS feed or newsfeed you will need two things, an RSS reader (also known as a news aggregator) and url (web address) of the RSS feed that you wish to subscribe.
- Download a News Aggregator / RSS Reader
- A news aggregator or RSS reader is a software application that collects and displays news headlines and summaries from sources that you have designated.
- Install the feed reader or news aggregator on the computer
- Click on the RSS Subscribe Icon
 and the feed (XML file) will open in a new window.
- Copy the URL from your web browser.
- Insert the url of the news feed (there is usually an "add feed" button) into your feed reader or news aggregator
- Many of the news readers will allow you to set the interval that the software will look for a feed update others simply update daily.
- The information in the feed will be updated when the feed contains new content.
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Why do I see "code" when I click on the RSS links?
RSS feeds are designed to be viewed with RSS readers (see above). If you view the RSS feed in a standard Web browser you will see the tagged data in its "raw" format.
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Porsche RSS Feed Selections
Click on a link below to add the feed to your reader.
Porsche USA - Press Release
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Porsche Club of America - News & Announcements
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