RSS feed

Automated update delivery

An RSS feed is a standardized format for distributing frequently updated content—blog posts, news articles, podcast episodes.

Users subscribe to feeds through a reader application, which aggregates new items from multiple sources into one stream.

The technology peaked in the late 2000s before social media largely supplanted it: I still follow my favorite blogs through RSS feeds.

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content · full text · XML · newsreader · weblog · subscription · subscribe button · channel · update · parse · CMS · blog post · unread · news aggregation · publisher · enclosure · hyperlink · fetch

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content delivery method

RSS feedpush notification

Automatic message from app

direct mail · broadcast · mailing list · SMS alert · SMS alerts

medium/format

RSS feedprint

Transfer text to paper

newspaper · offline · hardcopy · analog media · broadcast television

technology era/paradigm

RSS feedwalled garden

Bounded outdoor growing space

closed ecosystem

Family

feed, reader, aggregate, feeds, RSS, RSS feeds

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