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RSS 2.0, links and summaries. (Validate this feed.)
New! Article discussion feeds
You can also subscribe to individual article discussions via the sporty RSS link at the bottom of each discussion page. (Scroll to the bottom of this page, for instance.) At last, you can follow the ongoing discussion of your favorite articles from the comfort of your RSS reader or RSS-capable browser.
What’s an RSS reader? What’s an RSS-capable browser? Funny you should ask.
Using our RSS feeds
Even if you’re unfamiliar with news feeds, they are easy to use. First, download a newsreader application like Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon (Windows) or Ranchero Software’s NetNewsWire (Mac). Then, copy and paste the URL of any ALA news feed into the application’s “subscribe” dialogue. See Google for more about RSS newsreaders.
Some browsers (such as Firefox and Opera for all platforms and Safari 2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger) natively read RSS feeds via built-in widgets of fair attractiveness and non-dubious utility. Not entirely by coincidence, the aforesaid browsers tend to get updated frequently and to offer strong support for web standards like CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/ECMAScript.
Why RSS 2.0 only?
Sure, there are other syndication formats out there, including some that aren’t even called RSS. And there are companies that will generate multiple formats from a single RSS feed. We thought about all that.
And decided that RSS 2.0 was a standard, and that it was better to choose a standard and stick with it than to contribute to the fragmentation of the world-wide digital brainosphere.
