Blogs, RSS feeds, aggregators and wiki's

Its complicated enough having an account for one hundred million websites, whilst keeping track of their passwords, which is why the RSS was created. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication of information and is actually a simple way of feeding information out of all of the blogs, wiki's, online news webpages that you wich to read. Each page you are on, whether your own pages you wish to monitor input and news, or another source of information, you simply click on the button up top of the task bar that looks like this...

In order to read these RSS feeds of information, you need an RSS reader which is called an Aggregator (not alligator). Some fun and popular aggregator readers are

Googlereader

Bloglines

Blog Navigator

Once you have established your RSS reader, then whenever you are on a page where the RSS button lights up Orange, you can click on it and allocate a reader for the RSS feed to be threaded to. Then instead of logging into each page to view information, all this information is fed through your reader website. A fantastic tool for lecturers and teachers who wish to monitor their students online input and if any information is uploaded instead of daily viewing of each website.