Actually there are three ways to get updates via RSS. The first is visiting a website and clicking on the subscriptions button that links to an RSS feed. The second is researching on the web to find those websites that focus on the topic of one's predilection, and the latest is take a look at one of the many RSS directories.
These directories are websites that specializes is gather RSS feeds for you, scanning the web to find them out, and classifying every feed into the different categories they have set up to organized the information retrieved. This way, the surfer who needs to find the URL for the feed announcing the latest auction listings can find it as easy as another surfer can find the feeds for the recent forum topics and posts.
Actually RSS feed is used by a large number of websites, including the RSS directories as well. Therefore, if you subscribe to the feed provided by an RSS directory, you will always learn when other feeds have been added to the site's collection.
Although in the early days such directories only collected feeds from breaking news websites, today it is easy find sales listings, blog entries, announcements, articles, and even information about the release of podcasts, and other multimedia files.
There is a common misconception around the RSS acronym, which originally stand for RDF Site Summary, which later was dubbed twice, first as Rich Site Summary, and then as Really Simple Syndication. Nevertheless, some people tend to believe that RSS stands for Rich Syndication Standard.
Despite such information is inaccurate, some RSS directories have taken this definition for good and it is easy to find many feeds doing a research for the term "Rich Syndication Standard." Furthermore, RSS feeds are based on XML, Extensible Markup Language; hence many directories list their findings under the name "XML directory."
You may find many RSS directories doing a regular search on the web, but if you add to your query the above terms, you can find many others and, consequently, increase the number of feeds to browse and select your favorite ones. Directories do not only include a link to a fed, but to the website that originates the update.
This information is useful because you can visit the site and make sure it is authoritative, or at least serious enough to subscribe to its feed. Try the power of RSS directories and you will not regret.
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