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What are feeds?

RSS feeds let you keep up to date with the latest info on all your favourite sites without having to take the trouble to visit them. In effect, bits of their sites come to you instead.

An RSS feed is made up of a number of titles and short summaries of full content on the website that produced the feed. In other words, you can quickly look at the summaries and, at a glance, tell if you want to click through and visit the full version on the website. Plus, your computer will let you know when a new feed is available. And that's what an RSS feed is - a summary of the latest content on a website so that you can see whether there is anything new or interesting available.

It is becoming more popular because it makes keeping up to date with the sites you like quick and easy.

How do I use feeds?

  1. Choose (and install) a feed reader you want to use (see below). You may need to set up a user account.
  2. Surf the web, or use Feed Factory to find an RSS feed you are interested in subscribing to.
  3. Subscribe to the feed - this works differently for different readers. You might be able to drag and drop the orange RSS button to your reader. Or another way is to copy the address of the feed from your browser's Address bar. Paste this into your reader. (You may need to set up a new feed (sometimes called a 'channel' first.) Most readers that are available will have specific help sections for their own products - refer to this is you get stuck.
  4. Check your feed reader regularly to see if there is any new or interesting content.
  5. When you find something you want to know more about click the link in the reader to go straight to the page in your browser.
  6. And that's it! Of course, you can repeat the subscription step for all the other feeds you are interested in.

The most popular news readers

You can chose from a wide range of news readers and new versions are being developed all the time. Each operating system has its own readers, so chose one that works with your computer.

What is in the IEA RSS feed?

The IEA have RSS feed contains all the latest news, events and press releases about the IEA.

Click on the button IEA RSS or copy the url below into your RSS aggregator.

http://www.ioea.org.uk/RSS%20Feeds/iea.aspx