Gryphon replied:
>I'll assume you're talking about "Really Simple Syndication" (although
>"RDF Site Summary" also looks promising), not that I know what that
>does apart from the obvious. What does it do?

Yes to both. It makes maximum sense in the context of news headlines (*lightbulb* you're in the newspaper business right?). Suppose you have a big news web site, like *coughBBC*cough*. You'd create a specially formatted -- aren't they all -- XML file that says "here's a bunch of headlines: headline1 (with brief text?), headline2 (brief text?), ...".

Or ... I think your Livejournal is available as an RSS feed. I know my blosxom blog is. "Here are the last N entries: Subject1 link1 summary1, subject2..." etc.

But all XML so it can be read and rendered by an RSS feed reader or aggregator. Most RSS feeds also have a "last modified" or some such feature, and most aggregators can present "new" articles much like email. So although my feed in particular only provides the top 5 items from the EPU new.html page, an aggregator would tell you only when a new one becomes available. As an example, I have a perl script that sends a Jabber (think instant message) message with new items, so they pop up as an instant message.

Naturally, all this assumes you weren't being sarcastic.

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Satya.