About This Website: Information and Assistance with RSS
Newsfeeds
What
is RSS?
How
can I receive RSS feeds from George Mason School of Law?
What's
included in the RSS feeds provided by George Mason School
of Law?
What software or services can I use
to read RSS headlines?
What
if I don't want to bother figuring out this 'RSS thing'?
What is RSS?
RSS is an acronym which stands for Rich Site Summary
or Really Simple Syndication. It is a web content distribution
protocol primarily used by news sites and weblogs (blogs).
In essence, RSS is a way for people to dynamically distribute
headlines and web content. Detailed technical information
about RSS is available
from Wikipedia .
How can I receive RSS feeds from George Mason School
of Law?
Following are links to add either of our two RSS feeds to a service
of your choice. The link labelled
"Feedburner" will allow you to read each RSS feed online
or subscribe to it using any of more than a dozen services.
The final link points to the URL for the feed itself, in
case your favorite RSS aggregation service is not listed.
Usually you can just cut and paste this URL for use in
your preferred service or software.
| George Mason Law School News |
 |
George Mason Law Faculty News |
 |
|
What's included in the RSS feeds provided by George Mason
School of Law?
We provide RSS feeds for the Current
News and Faculty
News sections of our website. The RSS feed for
each source provides headlines as well as a summary
of the news, which is typically one to three paragraphs
long. In addition, each entry provides a link to the
item on on our site, together with other basic details.
Each RSS feed contains the most recent 10 headlines
for items we have added, and they are automatically
updated.
What software or services can I use to read RSS headlines?
Frequently, people who choose to read several RSS feeds
or blogs at once will choose to monitor them with an
Internet-based service such as Bloglines or
by adding them to the MyYahoo! service. Another common
way to read these kinds of services is by using news
aggregator software. In addition to this, the Internet
browser software Firefox (from
The Mozilla Organization) allows you to read RSS headlines
as live
bookmarks. Because RSS is a widely-used distribution
protocol, there are numerous other ways that a person
might use these sources now or in the future.
What if I don't want to bother figuring out this 'RSS
thing'?
If you don't want to figuring out how to
use our RSS feeds or related software or services, then
don't bother. All of the content available through our
RSS feeds appears directly on our own site. The Current
News and Faculty News pages
are updated at the exact same time as the RSS feeds.
The advantage to using RSS is that you can review news
headlines from many sources as they are published. Also,
you don't have to come back to our site to see when we've
posted new information.
