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As soon as you have your own 'ah-ha' moment, and it is. It's one of those things everyone says is easy to understand, to begin with. What is RSS?

But this should help get you started, i'm not going to try to explain everything on the subject. I think the easiest way to explain it is to walk you through an example of RSS in action.

>> Let's sign you up for the Excess Voice RSS Feed

Or read it in your web browser, if you want to read the Excess Voice newsletter every two weeks you can either read it in your email inbox.

Whatever that might be, and then read the newsletter in your email program, hope the spam filters don't block some or all issues, you sign up. You already know how it works when you subscribe to a newsletter via email.

You subscribe via a web page, instead of subscribing via email, with RSS.

>> Let's walk through the subscription process

Add RSS by URL, on the right side of the 'Find Content' area you will see a link that reads. And click through to the Add Content page. Go to My Yahoo, account! If you have a Yahoo!

) Cut and paste it. http://www.excessvoice.com/excessfeed.xml (Don't click on this link, simple paste this url into the field provided, to add the Excess Voice RSS feed, follow that link and.

Now click the Add button and you're done.

Bloglines is a free service and is where I read all the RSS feeds to which I have subscribed. Register at Bloglines.com and follow the same process, . If you don't use Yahoo!

>> What happens now?

) It's just the one I found first and have used ever since. (Bloglines is one of several similar services. And a number after the name tells you how many items within the feed have been updated since you last checked, in Bloglines the feed name will appear in bold. It tells you how many hours or days ago the feed was updated. In Yahoo! You will see when the Excess Voice feed has been updated, or Bloglines. Whenever you go to My Yahoo, now!

. . >> What you see.

Just enough so you can decide if you are interested or not. You see the title and the first ten lines or so of content. The complete article or all of the review, you don't see the whole newsletter. . . You don't get the complete content, you will see that with each feed, when you check the Excess Voice feeds.

Click on the link provided and you will be taken to the page on the Excess Voice site where I have published the complete item, for example, if you want to read the whole article.

Here is what I am doing behind the scenes to deliver this information meanwhile,

"excessfeed.xml" (no need to know what that is), it's an XML file. I added one new document to the root folder of my web site on the server.

Or Bloglines. Within this XML file I include the necessary coding and the preview text and links you see in My Yahoo!

I update the content in this XML file and upload it to my server, review or newsletter to my site, whenever I add a new article.

They let you know in the ways I described above, if it has. And Bloglines will periodically check that XML file so see if it has been updated. Yahoo!

So it is published by email and on the web at the same time. I send out the newsletter broadcast at the same time as I upload the revised XML file, with my newsletter, for instance. And I can schedule when the feeds are updated. I can even add small images. I can decide how many feeds I want to create and how many items to have within each feed.

>> How do I do all this XML coding?

Edit and upload my feeds, format, it provides me with a simple interface that enables me to create. I use a WYSIWYG software tool called FeedForAll. I have no idea. What's XML?

Now you can go RSS crazy . . >> As an information seeker.

Blogs and more, articles, newsletters, news. . . You can subscribe to dozens of different feeds, bloglines etc), . Once you get the idea and have chosen your preferred RSS Reader (Yahoo!

) And unsubscribe with one click (No more newsletter unsubscribe hassles, sign up with one click.

Gain more readers . . >> As a publisher.

They also use it to choose which elements of content they want to hear about from various sites. They use it instead of subscribing to newsletters. More and more people are turning to RSS.

Updated content publish tons of fresh, . . >> As a webmaster.

Hence the 'Syndication' in RSS - Really Simple Syndication. No problem. Automatically updated, you want the latest art and culture news from the BBC showing on your site? You can have RSS content delivered directly to your site, if you have a website, yes.

. . >> In conclusion.

But I hope I have covered enough to give you your own 'ah-ha' moment. This brief explanation isn't intended to tell you everything there is to know about RSS.