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Feed Me!

By Robert J. Ambrogi
November 01, 2005

If you are not yet using RSS, you are missing out on the single best way to get news and updated information via the Internet. An acronym for “really simple syndication,” RSS is a standard that enables delivery of Web content directly to your desktop.


The power of RSS is in its convenience. With the proper software, you can use RSS to aggregate, in a single location, all of the Web news and information services you rely on. Get headlines from numerous news-related sites, postings from your favorite blogs and updates from the federal government, all without having to surf from site to site.


This article is not an essay on RSS. For that, go to Wikipedia (http://en/.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), where you can read about RSS in greater detail and find links to desktop software and online services that can read RSS feeds. But a number of recently launched RSS feeds demonstrate the variety of ways in which this is becoming a powerful tool for legal professionals.

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