Web publishers use RSS to easily create and distribute news feeds that include links, headlines, and summaries. Speednet Direct is among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS.

Speednet Direct offers hundreds of RSS feeds you can read with Google, My Yahoo, My MSN, IE7, Firefox, Thunderbird or other third-party RSS news reader software.

• Using a program known as a News Aggregator to collect, update and display RSS feeds
• Incorporating RSS feeds into weblogs

News Aggregators (also called news readers) will download and display RSS feeds for you. A number of free and commercial News Aggregators are available for download. Popular news readers include AmphetaDesk, NetNewsWire, and Radio Userland.

Many aggregators are separate, "stand-alone" programs such as those listed above; other services will let you add RSS feeds to a Web page. Yahoo! lets you add RSS feeds to your My Yahoo! page; to make this easier, you can click on the "Add to My Yahoo!" button to the right of each link above.

Another way many people use RSS feeds is by incorporating content into weblogs, or "blogs". Blogs are web pages comprised of usually short, frequently updated items and web links. Blogging as a publishing tool is used for many purposes: traditional journalism, personal journals, group discussions around a topic, and many combinations in-between.