RSS Feed Information

How to Subscribe

The URL for Upstate in the News' RSS feed (channel) is:

http://www.upstate.edu/news.xml

Paste the above URL into your RSS compatible browser or as a "new subscription" in your desktop news reader. A list of compatable browsers and news readers are listed at the bottom of this page.

What is RSS?

Google Descriptions for RSS
Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a Web standard for publishing news headlines. RSS a method of sending headlines to subscribers through news services, associated web sites, and client readers. RSS feeds enable subscribers to efficiently scan news headlines from several sites in a compatible reader without actually visiting those sites. If the user sees a headline of interest, a click on a headline jumps to a view the complete news article on the host website or service. Depending on the feed, a short article summary may also be viewable directly in the reader.

Many sites will display one or both of the following icons indicating an available feed.

These icons are normally linked to a news feed URL which presents a page formatted in RSS—or sometimes to an instruction page like the one you are reading. This URL needs to be copied into a reader for proper viewing.

Popular Methods of Reading Newsfeeds

RSS/XML Compatible Browser

• Opera - free with banner ad or $$
  (Browser with built-in RSS/XML viewing)

Web-based Services

• MyYahoo - free
  (Free online service with an RSS subscription feature)
• Rocketinf@ - free
  (Free online subscription)

Windows Application

• Pluck - free
  (Windows 2000 SP3/XP SP1, IE 6.0)

Mac OS X Application

• NetNewsWire Lite - free
  (Mac OSX 10.2.8) A lite version for OSX 10.1 and a commercial version are also available.
• Safari
  (Mac OSX 10.4 - Tiger)