Want more? Check out the
RSS Feed Directory!
Feeds for Teachers
Feeds for Seniors
Federal Student Aid (many other scholarship sites have a feed)
UW Wisconsin System (most universities will have a news RSS feed)
What is RSS?
The abbreviation, RSS, has been used to stand for a variety of things, each with essentially the same functionality:
Many websites sites syndicate their content as an RSS Feed. These feeds are available to anyone who like to read them.
How does RSS work?
RSS headlines are fed as simple text files to the server. This usually includes a date, a headline, and, perhaps, a summary. The server then pushes the text file out to subscribers. Readers use RSS to retrieve the latest content from favorite sites without having to visit or search the sites.
How do I subscribe?
Many RSS Feed Readers need only the URL to find the feeds associated with a site. If this is not an option, most websites that provide feeds will give you a list of those feeds, indicated by the rss feed symbol. You can often just Google "RSS feed and website name" to find this information. Also, it's simple to identify the RSS feed for a blog hosted on these common platforms.
Here's how to find an RSS Feed for a You Tube Channel?
How do I add an RSS feed to my reader?
Some online RSS reading services have tools to locate rss feeds by a site's URL. Others may require you to know the feed address, which you can find like this:
That's it! You'll now have this content added to your daily headlines to scan and follow.
Will I ever use a RSS feed reader outside of school?
Yes! Professionals use RSS to keep up on current events and developments in their field of work. You can even make use of it in your personal life, today.
This one is recommended for MG users because it allows single sign-on with your MG Google account. Set up and categorizating your news items is very simple.
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Google Play Apple App Store Kindle App feedly Mini extension *other extensions available |
While each of the online readers here have Chrome extensions, this lives mostly on your extension bar,making it the best for scanning the news.
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Google Play Apple App Store Kindle App feedly Mini extension *other extensions available |
This is Mrs. Cowell's favorite for her personal reading. The device app is very elegant and makes it easy to share articles through social media super simple.
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Google Play Apple App Store Kindle App feedly Mini extension *other extensions available |
NOTE: You can locate other feed readers for your device, type "RSS Reader" into your app store search box.
Want to do NEWS ALERTS on your phone?
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Nuzzle App (Android and iOS) Relies on your Facebook and Twitter usage to predict what stories you want to know about, so this app is great at seeing what's trending, at least among the folks you know. |
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Flipboard (Android and iOS) Relies on your subscribing to RSS feeds and customizing topics. You have the most control here. |
AP Mobile (Android and iOS) The AP Wire is used by many news agencies to collect the day's news (learn more about this at Hot Off the Wire). It doesn't connect through your social media, so you'll get alot of "straight up" breaking news stories. |
You can also subscribe alerts through text messaging.
"Pushed Beyond Breaking: US Newsrooms Use Mobile Alerts To Define Their Brand." Columbia Journalism Review. N. p., 2019. Web. 30 Oct. 2019.
"Why Newsrooms Are Using Mobile Push Alerts For Brand, Not Breaking." Columbia Journalism Review. N. p., 2019. Web. 30 Oct. 2019.
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