RSS Feeds
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a technology that allows you to be notified when the content of a website changes. Many websites now use this technology - look out for the RSS logo (see left).
To use RSS you need two things:
- an RSS link
- an RSS reader (to paste the link into)
If you have a modern web-browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 7), you will have an inbuilt RSS reader. Other RSS readers are available to download, and the one you choose depends on how you want to be notified. For example, you can download readers that work with Microsoft Outlook so you can be notified in your email inbox or to your mobile phone.
You can download an RSS reader here:
To subscribe to an RSS update from the Observatory Online, click on the Latest News or Latest Events links below and paste the address of the page into your preferred RSS reader.
Latest News