The Basics of RSS Feeds and their growing popularity:

RSS is an increasingly popular format for delivering content such as broadcasts, blogs, news, syndications, and metadata over the Internet. This simple, XML-based method of content publishing allows users the ability to subscribe to various forms information. Most commonly, RSS Feeds are used throughout many web communities for sharing topical information such as linking to headline news articles and sharing user comments (up-to-date posts) within blog groups.