About This Website: Frequently-Asked Questions About
RSS
What
is RSS?
What's
included in the RSS feeds provided by George Mason School
of Law?
How
can I receive RSS feeds from George Mason School of Law?
What
software or services can I use to read RSS headlines?
What
if I don't want to bother figuring out this 'RSS thing'?
What is RSS?
RSS is an acronym which stands for Rich Site Summary
or Really Simple Syndication. It is a web content distribution
protocol primarily used by news sites and weblogs (blogs).
In essence, RSS is a way for people to dynamically distribute
headlines and web content. Detailed technical information
about RSS is available
from Wikipedia .
What's included in the RSS feeds provided by George Mason
School of Law?
We provide RSS feeds for the Current
News and Faculty
News sections of our website. The RSS feed for
each source provides headlines as well as a summary
of the news, which is typically one to three paragraphs
long. In addition, each entry provides a link to the
item on on our site, together with other basic details.
Each RSS feed contains the most recent 10 headlines
for items we have added, and they are automatically
updated.
How can I receive RSS feeds from George Mason School
of Law?
To receive an RSS feed, visit the Current
News and/or Faculty
News page, and click on the XML image in the left
column of the page (it looks like this: 
).
To begin to use this RSS feed, copy the RSS URL to
your clipboard and follow the directions for your particular
news aggregator or other RSS software.
What software or services can I use to read RSS headlines?
Frequently, people who choose to read several RSS feeds
or blogs at once will choose to monitor them with an
Internet-based service such as Bloglines or
by adding them to the MyYahoo! service. Another common
way to read these kinds of services is by using news
aggregator software. In addition to this, the Internet
browser software Firefox (from
The Mozilla Organization) allows you to read RSS headlines
as live
bookmarks. Because RSS is a widely-used distribution
protocol, there are numerous other ways that a person
might use these sources now or in the future.
What if I don't want to bother figuring out this 'RSS
thing'?
If you don't want to spend time figuring out how to
use RSS feeds or related software or services, then don't
bother. All of the content available through our RSS
feeds appears directly on our own site. The Current
News and Faculty News pages
are updated at the exact same time as the RSS feeds.
The advantage to using RSS is that you can review news
headlines from many sources as they are published.
