From the course: Social Media Promotion for Musicians, Artists, and Engineers

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- [Instructor] RSS stands for real simple syndication and allows people to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites they're interested in. These posts are read through what's known as an RSS reader, which can be either a standalone app or built into your browser. This saves time by not needing to visit each site individually or joining each site's email newsletter, and allows someone to review a large amount of information in a short amount of time. For a publisher, which is you, the blog owner, feeds permit instant distribution of content and the ability to make it subscribable. RSS feeds use a universal icon like this. Most modern web browsers handle RSS feeds but in a limited manner. They use an RSS feed as a dynamic bookmark folder with automatic bookmarks to all the news in the feed. Unlike news aggregators, browsers will not save the news if you don't check on it every day. Even though RSS has been the standard for web feeds for a while now, it's…

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