Signing up for our RSS Feed: Getting our headlines
automatically
Our website www.uspolicy.be now makes its news headlines available via RSS
feeds to facilitate reading our stories via news aggregators.
This document explains why this may be useful to you, and how
you can do it.
USPolicy.be RSS Feeds
What Is RSS?
What Do I Need to Receive RSS Feeds?
Currently, we provide one set of headlines in RSS format
every day, entitled "News from Washington: A Daily Digest
of Policy Statements by United States Public Officials". Our focus is
on public statements regarding foreign policy issues and
particularly regarding the US-European relationship. The following
lines explain what you have to do in order to receive it.
News from Washington: A Daily Digest of Policy Statements by
United States Public Officials
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." RSS is a
new way to publish information online.
At the heart of the technology is special Web coding, called
XML, that has been widely developed by the global online
community over the past few years.
The XML code for RSS describes a new type of Web information
called a "news feed." Essentially, the feeds can contain a
summary and links of the new content on a Web site or anything
else a creator desires to share. A company may publish an RSS
feed that contains news of its latest products, for example.
Anyone — an online surfer or another Web site — can pick up
the RSS codes and with the appropriate Web software display the
information automatically.
The concept is similar to how a newswire service operates:
Information published by one news organization can be
"syndicated" — picked up and displayed — by any other news
organization.
First, you need a so-called feed reader. Performing a search
for "RSS Feed Readers" in any major online search engine such as
Google.com or Yahoo! will produce a slew of software options —
many of which are free or at little cost.
Once you've obtained a feed reader, subscribing to an RSS
feed is as simple as looking for the appropriate XML code. Most
Web sites that publish an RSS feed will display a tiny orange
box or button labeled "RSS" or "XML."
Click the button and your Web browser typically goes to a
page of cryptic code. Just copy the Web "address" or URL of that
page and plug it into your feed reader. The software will then
automatically retrieve and display that site's latest
information. For our RSS feeds, see under
USPolicy.be RSS Feeds
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