RSS

RSS (Really Simply Syndication) is a way to keep track of new posts on a website without visiting the website every day. A website can have several 'RSS feeds' and you can subscribe to each of those RSS feeds. To do this you need a 'RSS reader' - a small program that you install on your PC and which reads and display the articles from a RSS feed. Everytime you start the RSS reader it shows you the latest articles which were posted on the website. Typically, a RSS reader only shows the title and the first few lines of an article. If you want to read the entire article, you just click on the title and you'll go the website.

The RSS feeds of Morganonline are currently:

  - The Ship's blog

There is a large number of RSS readers. Some of them are:

• Feedreader (Windows)
• RSSReader (Windows)
• Sharpreader (Windows)
• AmphetaDesk (Linux, Mac, Windows)
• NetNewsWire (Mac)
• Syndirella (Windows)

You can also read RSS feeds in most modern internet browser, such as Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.

And finally, there are website such as www.bloglines.com which can be used to read RSS feeds. The advantage of using bloglines is that you can read your RSS feeds from any computer, whereas all the above mentioned programs are installed on a single PC. Bloglines is the preferred way of reading RSS feeds by your webmaster.