Saw this on Mashable a minute ago….

If this doesn’t help you understand was RSS Feeds are try asking me and I will see what I can do to explain them, but this is pretty good…..need a RSS Reader, try Google’s

I’ve been hearing that May 1st was RSS Awareness Day for a few weeks, although I hadn’t really been able to pin down many details. However, since Dave Winer – the godfather of RSS himself – has posted about it, I figured it would be okay to spread the word here too. The effort appears to have been first organized by Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips, and includes a website (RSSDay.org), a video, and a page with buttons and banners you can use to help spread the word.

So, how do you explain RSS to a novice? Personally, I explain it by demonstrating how it allows you to read all of the sites you typically visit in one place, hence, saving you considerable time that would otherwise be spent navigating the Web. If this doesn’t resonate, I like to make the analogy to old-fashioned newspapers, which are often a round-up of stories from the wire services like AP and Reuters, blended in with content produced by the paper’s own reporters. It’s not a great analogy, but it at least conveys the idea of reading content from multiple sources in the same place.

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