On this site and others, you have probably seen the small orange and white icon maybe along with words like “RSS feed.” RSS, or “really simple syndication,” gives users of the web a way to have news from your favorite sites delivered to you. You build up a list of the sites you care about in your news reader. Then, updates come to you in digest form, aggregated together. For the full story, you click on the link which takes you back to the original web page, blog entry, multimedia source or other web content.

Why would you use a news reader?