On 1/31/2012 12:52 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> As usual with Wikipedia, the page babbles about updates and feeds and
>>> XML and "syndication" and something about RDF, but utterly fails to
>>> explain WHAT IT IS.
>>
>> This is similar to what news organizations do with newsfeeds from
>> Reuters, AP, AFP, etcept it's for the common mortal. It's a standardized
>> way to package news items (or in many cases, blog entries). It allows
>> you to view content that comes from other sources. Some people use that
>> to put "in the news..." sections on their websites, some others use RSS
>> readers to gather news flashes and what nots from multiple sources they
>> find interesting.
>
> I'm still failing to see why this is in any way "useful". Unless you run
> a news website, which I don't.
Its also used by blogs, and the like, in which case, instead of going to 
the blog, you might get the text, and links, packaged differently, for 
use in something like a cell phone app. Or, for example, you might have 
something like here, where comments are collected, into a single 
package, and "filed" along with the original item, sort of like news 
readers do with threads.

Basically, its a way of delivering content automatically, to clients 
that support it, by "subscribing", the same way you tell a news reader 
that you want to get everything sent to povray.off-topic when you log in 
to the server, rather than having to go to every single website you want 
to read them from.

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