What is a feed?
A feed is a regularly updated summary of web content. When you subscribe to a website or weblog feed using a feed reader or a browser that supports feeds, you’ll receive a summary of news content from that site.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a feed format. Olentangy news feeds are RSS 2.0.
Using RSS
RSS readers (also known as news aggregators) gather the content from any number of sources that you select and consolidate and display it for you in one convenient location. This means you don’t have to visit each site individually to see what’s new – you can simply scan the headlines or summaries in your news reader and click to read the full text.
News readers come in two main types: web-based online aggregators and software that you run on your computer. Yahoo and Google both provide customizable news readers through their My Yahoo and Google Reader features. Another popular online aggregator is Bloglines. Aggregator software that runs on your own computer may be a standalone program or may be integrated into a program that you already use, such as Microsoft Outlook, the Mozilla Firefox browser or Apple’s Safari browser.
Firefox browser showing the Olentangy news feeds.
Feed Link in the Firefox Bookmarks Menu
Feed Link in Safari
Subscribing to Olentangy’s RSS Feeds
To subscribe to Olentangy’s blogs, follow the instructions for your news reader of choice. Commonly, you just need to click on the feed link. When a feed is available, the link may be shown in your browser’s Tool bar (Safari) or Bookmarks menu (Firefox).
Olentangy’s RSS Feeds
At Olentangy, you can subscribe to many different feeds. For example, you can choose to subscribe to your child’s school’s news feed, the Get the Facts weblog, and the district’s Top News feed. For your convenience a number of Olentangy feed links are listed below: