What is RSS?

RSS is a format for publishing news and other frequently updated content.  Users subscribe to an RSS feed by typing the RSS link into a reader.  The readers checks a user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content.  Any updates that are found are then downloaded.

The advantage to using RSS feeds is that a user may select different types of information from a variety of web sites and view them all at the same time through an RSS reader.

Web-Based Readers

Use the links below to subscribe to these popular news readers:

• My Yahoo!®
• iGoogle™

You may also subscribe by typing http://www.cmu.edu/computing/rss/news.rss into your favorite reader.

Outlook 2007's Reader

Follow the instructions below to subscribe to news feeds using Outlook 2007:

1. Select Tools > Account Settings.
2. On the RSS Feeds tab, click New.
3. In the New RSS Feed dialog box, type or paste http://www.cmu.edu/computing/rss/news.rss.
4. Click Add.