What are News Feeds?
Subscribing to a news feed allows you to see when a website has added new content. You can get the latest headlines and blogs in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to visit the website. New feeds are also known as RSS or ‘Really Simple Syndication’. In essence, the feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people.

How do I start using feeds?
In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a web browser, some using your email client, and some of which are downloadable applications. Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to subscribe to the content you want it to receive. Most of the time, this is done at the website itself by clicking the orange RSS button or on "subscribe". If you click on the RSS button, you will be provided with a tool that will help you setup your subscription no matter what your reader is.

The RSS button looks like this:

If you don’t have a RSS reader yet, go ahead and click on the RSS button. All the most popular readers are shown there. Select one and learn more about using that service.