All about RSS feeds and our website

To keep you abreast of the changes we make in our photo albums, we have created RSS feeds to our image pages so that you can see the latest and greatest on our website.

So, what exactly is RSS?

Here's a great explanation from O'Reilly's website at www.xml.com:

"RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them."

What this means is that you can add our RSS feed to the application or webservice you use for news aggregation and then you will receive an update each and every time we update our photography section with great pictures of cool cars and others motorsports happenings.

There are a number of news readers available and we have added links to dedicated aggregators at the bottom of this page as well. Click on the application/service title to go to that site:

RSS Readers

RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer. You read these files in a program called an aggregator, which collects news from various websites and provides it to you in a simple form. But what aggregator to use? Here are some choices: