Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What Does This Mean? 
A: You may recognize the universal feed icon from your favorite web sites, blogs or podcasts. This icon represents content to which you can subscribe and read/watch/listen using a feed reader. What's that?

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Q: What is RSS?
A: RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a method of receiving constantly updated links to your chosen websites, called feeds. Once you have set up a feed you will receive a list of all the stories currently shown on a certain page or section of that site.  

For completeness, RSS is just one standard for expressing feeds. Another well-known choice is Atom.  However, you generally will not need to be concerned with this since most feed readers support both formats or will choose the format they support best.

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Q: How can I receive RSS feeds?
A: There are several ways of receiving RSS feeds, but the technology is constantly moving forward very quickly. Today, there are more than 2,000 different feed reading applications, also known as “news aggregators” (for text, mostly) or “podcatchers” (for podcasts). There are even readers that work exclusively on mobile devices.

Some require a small purchase price but and supply additional features. Free readers are available as well, including Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Bloglines, and Feedreader. Alternatively, some newer web browsers offer similar functionality already built-in which will detect whether the website you are viewing offers an RSS feed and will then let you create a constantly-updated list of links in your 'bookmarks' menu. There are also some websites that let you customize a list of RSS feeds too.

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Q: Which RSS feeds are available on our website?
A: A list of our RSS feeds can be found here. You will need to follow the instructions for your chosen news reader to add them to your list of feeds.  As an alternative, most of our feeds are also available via email.

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