HOW TO: Getting Started with RSS. RSS has become a valuable technology for everything from casual web users to webmasters.
According to a recent Yahoo survey only 12% of internet users are aware of RSS and a mere 4% have knowingly used RSS. RSS exists as a means to gather and display information quickly and easily. By the end of this article, you should know what RSS is and how to use it to make your life easier. What exactly is this RSS thing? How to: Read RSS feeds. Google Reader Lets You Subscribe to Any Page on the Web. RSS technology makes it possible for anyone to keep up with fresh content without having to visit the site in question.
Now the same holds for webpages without RSS thanks to a new Google Reader feature. Today Google has rolled out a subtle change to Google Reader that lets you create custom feeds to track pages that don't already have them. So you can subscribe to updates for any webpage simply by typing the URL into the "Add a subscription" text box.