What is RSS?
By subscribing to the SHC RSS feed at http://shc.psu.edu/rss/shc.xml, you can easily keep track of news from the SHC, as well as stay current with all of your other favorite information outlets.
RSS is widely used by the weblog community to share the latest entries' headlines or their full text, and even attached multimedia files (such as podcasting).
A program known as a feed reader or aggregator (here is a nice list of RSS Readers) can check RSS-enabled webpages on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds. RSS saves users from having to repeatedly visit favorite websites to check for new content or be notified of updates via email. It is now very common to find RSS feeds on most major web sites, as well as many smaller ones.
(from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol))
Getting Started
You'll need a feed reader to get started. You can find links to many popular feed readers for most operating systems here: http://blogspace.com/rss/readers. We recommend web-based aggregators such as Bloglines, which allow you to check your favorite feeds from any computer with web access.
How to Subscribe (Bloglines)
1. Go to: http://www.bloglines.com and click Register in the upper right.
2. Create an account. You'll get an email when you're done.
3. Log back in to Bloglines.
4. Click My Feeds in the upper left.
5. Click Add, just below that.
6. Copy and paste this URL: http://shc.psu.edu/rss/shc.xml into the Blog or Feed URL field. You can leave everything else blank.
7. Click Subscribe.
8. On the left, you'll notice a link to a new feed. Click here to browse.
9. Click on the content titles if you want to see the full page.
10. Bookmark this site (http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs) and check back often.
