RSS - usually broken down as Really Simple Syndication and also sometimes (though rarely) as either Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary - is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other web features. RSS is a relatively new technology, popularly used in the weblog community and also by most major News Services such as BBC, the Guardian, New York Times and CNN.

RSS technology provides a very simple way of getting the latest updates to your favorite websites; it allows the latest news and website additions to be delivered directly to you, saving you time and removing the hassle from staying up to date. This is the major benefit of this technology on Bhlasen.com: it will bring to your attention, through your chosen newsreader, the latest additions to Bhlasen.com thus keeping you abreast of the latest debates while at the same time, saving you the trouble it would otherwise be to stay informed.

•  Get a newsreader

This is probably the first thing you need to access RSS feeds. There are many different types, some which can be assessed using a browser and some which are downloadable applications. The most convenient readers come as part of most email clients such as pine, MS Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. Different news readers work in different Operating systems, for example Newsfire and NetNewsWire are used with the Mac OS X and news readers such as FeedDemon work with Windows.

An alternative to downloading a dedicated news reader is to use a web-based news reader. For example My Yahoo! And Google both allow users to add RSS feeds directly to their personal pages.

•  Using the Reader to access RSS feeds

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to make the connection between your preferred news reader and the bhlasen.com RSS feed. We currently offer a single type of RSS feed that will deliver to you the latest article additions to Bhlasen.com. To use this, simply drag the url of the RSS feed into your newsreader or just cut and paste the same url into a new feed in your news reader. The url is also provided below:

www.bhlasen.com/rss.php