If you’re like many others, you’ve most likely shifted to getting your news from online sources .The problem is, there is tons of information available online and navigating all of the different news sites you like may be difficult. If this is the case, you may be interested in a way to simplify your news gathering process. Luckily, there are solutions tailored for just this problem.

Many people have several sites (such as news sites and blogs) that they visit regularly. These pages often have frequent updates, making it necessarily to keep checking back to see if any new updates have been posted. Unfortunately, this quickly becomes tedious. It’s much more convenient to be automatically notified of any new updates. This is RSS‘s role.

RSS, also known as really simple syndication, allows a site to publish feeds. Feeds consist of a stream of updates made to a site that are published in XML, a language easily read by machines. With RSS, you can subscribe to a number of sites in order to browse headlines, descriptions, and other information from all of your favorite news sites in one place, so that you can pick and choose which you want to fully read.

The beauty of this is that you can stay on top of a very large number of news sources from one place and you do not have to worry about forgetting a source. You simply add the address of your site to your feed reader and it will aggregate all the news for you. Many options exist in terms of feed readers and you can either pick a piece of software you install on your computer or you can use a web-based reader.

If you publish comment you will also want to learn how to publish your feed so that your audience can stay on top of your site. Most modern blogging software will provide you with the needed extensions to publish your feed. Little or no work should be required on your end besides simply enabling this functionality.

The information overload is a very serious and genuine problem. Aggregating your news like this can assist you greatly in managing the information overload as it will allow you in receiving the news you care about at one place and you can scan your incoming news very quickly for the articles you want to explore in greater details.