RSS Feeds
The news on the Web Site of the Statistical
Service of Cyprus are now available via service “RSS feeds”. With this
service you can receive the titles of news free of charge and
incorporate them in the program of reading news that you use or in your
personal weblog.
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format
for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites,
weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS
Feed to whoever wants it.
Why RSS?
Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
RSS solves a problem for people who
regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by
retrieving summaries of the latest content from the sites you are
interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site
individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each
site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is
growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News and Amazon.com.
What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed?
RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software
allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for
you to read and use.
A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include
Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac),
Awasu (Windows),
NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook) and
FeedReader (Windows).
A list with more feed readers is available following the link http://www.rss-readers.org/list-of-rs-feed-reader/.
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a
matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed
to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a
small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is
available.
Subscribe to this feed
You can subscribe to this RSS feed in a number of ways, including the following:
- Drag the URL of the RSS feed into your News Reader
- Cut and paste the URL of the RSS feed into your News Reader
