That’s where RSS comes in. RSS is an acronym for “Really Simple Syndication”. Its a way of taking just [...]]]> Imagine being able to read the content from a website without having to actually go to the website. What if you could read the content from a website without distractions from unnecessary advertisements or pictures?

That’s where RSS comes in. RSS is an acronym for “Really Simple Syndication”. Its a way of taking just the words from a website. An RSS Feed is taking that content and ‘feeding’ or distributing it to somewhere else.  All sites build on WordPress or other blog platforms have RSS feeds. Your conversations on Twitter are RSS feeds.

So why is this important to you?

First, using an RSS Reader like Google Reader will save you time and headache.  Instead of having to visit 10 different websites to get the information you need to to catch up on your favorite blogs-you can have them all show up in your reader.

Second, if you are publishing any kind of content on a blog or website or as articles, understand that your content could be read by others in an RSS reader.  There are also aggregator sites like CNN.com which takes content from all kinds of locations and publishes them in one place to make it easy to digest.