What is RSS and how do I use it?

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites and personal weblogs. Any RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

In general this means that you will receive the news from all the websites you have registred through one interface. You don't need to visit the websites regularly but just go to the program you use and you'll see at once which websites have changed in the meantime.

Follow this link to see the wikipedia entry on RSS.

Such RSS Feeds are e.g. also available from The South East European Times (http://www.setimes.com/), CORDIS News (http://cordis.europa.eu/news/home_en.html), EU observer (specialised news on Enlargement available) or Commissioner Potocnik who writes his personal blog once a week (http://weblog.jrc.ec.europa.eu/page/potocnik) ... and many more.

How to subscribe to a RSS feed

  • Firefox or Mozilla users: Click on the orange button in the address bar
  • Opera users: Klick on the RSS symbol below
  • Internet Explorer: You will need a seperate news reader e.g. Feedreader since this browser has no support for RSS. Consider using a different browser like Firefox.
  • Safari users:: Klick on the blue RSS symbol in the task bar
  • Thunderbird users: Create a RSS account and subscribe to http://www.wbc-inco.net/news.rss

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