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Publishing content via RSS

Years ago there were CompuServe and America online, services where you dialed up and got all of your information from a single source. When the Internet started to become available and popular in the mid-90s, such services were known as "walled gardens" by comparison, since you could now go from one garden to another on the Internet simply by clicking links. The Internet had brought those walls down. Later, people started asking, why do we actually have to go from site to site? Couldn't we just get all the information we want in one place? And that's how RSS was born. RSS stands for really simple syndication, and it allows you to look at different sources in one place. The best way to explain RSS is to show an example. What I am going to do is I'm going to look at the blog from lynda.com, as well as my own blog from TomGeller.com, in one place. The place I'm using is Google Reader, which you can sign up for yourself at google.com/reader. But this isn't the only way that you can look…

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