Have you ever wondered how people keep up with news items on web sites without browsing each site every day? Well if the site provides a Rich Site Summary (RSS) service, then you can get a digest of the latest news by using a RSS client.

The main RISCOS Ltd site now provides a RSS summary of the most recent news items.

To use the service you need a RSS client. A PC based client is available from http://www.feedreader.com/ a RISC OS based client will be available shortly as part of the Select Scheme.

To view the RISCOS Ltd updates point your reader at http://www.riscos.com/cgi-bin/news.rss

• The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf
• Slashdot http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf
• Drobe Launchpad http://www.drobe.co.uk/rss.php
• The Icon Bar http://www.iconbar.com/cgi-bin/iconbar.rss
• Acorn Arcade http://www.acornarcade.com/cgi-bin/acornarcade.rss
• riscos.org http://www.riscos.org/index.rdf

RSS is an XML based format for summarizing and providing links to news stories.

There are three main RSS formats in popular use :- 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0.

Further information about RSS can be found at:- http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html