what is the best rss reader for a beginner?

Question

I am having trouble figuring out how to use it, and the steps to take. I'd like it spelled out for me. And what is it exactly.

Answer 1

Firefox allows you to read RSS feeds, it's fairly easy, all you have to do is click on the orange button that shows up after the address of the webpage (when you put the mouse on it , it says "Add live bookmark"). [In older versions of firefox it used to show at the bottom right of the browser].
When you click on the button it creates a "live" bookmark folder where it loads new contents from the website you've subscribed to every time you open the browser and as they are added.

You can also try to use the google desktop to subscribe to RSS feeds ......
Those are the only two RSS readers I've used so far.

Answer 2

RSS stands for Really Simply Syndication.
It allows webmasters to alert users of new content on their webpage without users having to go there to check every so often.

They're really useful in blogs, in which in a feed you'll see links with the Title, and a bit of excerpt from a post.

A really easy to use Aggregator is My Yahoo.

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If a website has a RSS feed you can subscribe to, you can either find a button that says a feed on it that links to it, right click on it and click "Copy Link Location"...

Then go to your My Yahoo page, and click add content. There's a search bar in the middle, but to the right there's a link that says "Add RSS by URL" or something like that. Click it, Paste the address that should look something like

http://www.mywebsite.com/feed.xml

Confirm it, and you should see a box for the feed on your My Yahoo page, and you're done.

On Firefox, it's even easier...
When you find a webapge that has a feed, at the very right end of the address bar, it will have a icon with 3 curved lines. Click it, and Firefox will ask you to add that webpage. Confirm it...

Firefox will then create a folder of Live Bookmarks, and when you open this folder in your bookmarks list, you will see updated lists of fresh new posts for you to look through.