Content on this website
marked with the icon 
is driven
by information posted on industry standards-compliant RSS feeds. With RSS feeds,
you can choose to be alerted as to new content being posted on this site by
subscribing to the feed or feeds of interest, without having to visit the site
to locate new postings.
You need not know anything about feeds to use this site. However, if you wish to learn a little about feeds, you can take advantage of their benefits to simplify your experience with this site. Feeds are a simple concept -- that's why the concept is referred to as "Really Simple Syndication"(RSS), so why not take a few minutes to learn about this technology. Perhaps there was a time for you when you first heard about websites and browsers when you felt some trepidation about learning that new technology. And now "surfin' the 'net" is second nature to you. So will you find your experience with news feeds as they become pervasive to online communication.
What's a feed? It's simply a series of news items each having a title and a body (aka item). The title is also a link to any online document (webpage, JPG image, PDF file). You can think of a news feed as a newspaper and the items as articles in that paper. This website is a presentation of a number of feeds about various topics. If you would like to learn more about feeds for other applications useful to your business or personal endeavor, read this Painless Tutorial on the Enfeedia website.
One feature of news feeds is that you can subscribe to them. This means that you can set things up so that you can easily discover what's new, even receive an email alert, whenever something new is posted on the feed. That means you don't have to peruse a site from time to time to see if there's something new since your last visit.
There are several methods for being alerted, including being sent an email or even a message to your cell phone, or simply having your browser indicate new arrivals by bookmarking the feed.
Want to learn all about this in plan English? Then this video, RSS in Plain English, is "required viewing" for you. In a few minutes, you will learn about subscribing to feeds using a reader of your choice. (After viewing the video, close that screen to see this screen again.)
The Yahoo news reader is preferred by many because Yahoo offers a way for displaying all news feeds for which you have an interest on your custom "MyYahoo" page. Whenever you view that page, you are presented with 'all the latest'. Yahoo also offers email alerts when anything new is posted. With these alerts, you don't even have to go to your MyYahoo page to see what's new.
When you click the 
icon associated with any news item, you will be presented a "NewsPage"
with all the news in that feed along with several useful links and "buttons"
across the top. Click the "What's This" link on the left to learn
more.
Rather than needing to remember to check back to this website to hunt down newly posted items, why not set up one or more alerts? With alerts and pings, you can be notified by email whenever a new item is posted without having to even open this website. And not miss out on news.
It's easy. Just click the
icon associated with the feed, or any item within the feed,
for which you would like an alert or a ping when new items are posted. Two methods
are provided: alerts (from Yahoo) and pings (from Enfeedia). For alerts, a Yahoo
account is required; an account is not required for pings.
At the top of the "NewsPage" that opens, click either the "Create an Alert" or "Set Up Pings" link, depending on which method you wanrt to use. You will receive information and instructions where, with a few clicks, you can set up alerts or pings to be sent to an email address or addresses you registered After you set up your alert, return to this website by repeatedly using your browser "back" button. You can set up as many alerts as you want.