RSS news
RSS is a way of keeping up-to-date with your favourite websites using an RSS aggregator. The University provides RSS for a number of its services such as:
- UKOLN News
- Noticeboard
- What's on
- University News (one feed per channel)
- Public Lecture Podcasts
The following links provide more information on RSS:
RSS aggregators
Both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 have built-in RSS aggregators and you can just click on an RSS link (
) to get started.
There are also many RSS aggregators available on the web. Some are free, while others which offer more features cost money.
A tip is to start with a web-based application and work from there. See the links below for a number of options.
| Web-based | MS Windows | GNU/Linux | Macintosh |
| Bloglines My Yahoo Google Reader NewsGator |
Sharp Reader Newzcrawler RSS Reader Feed Reader NewsGator RSS Bandit BlogBridge Thunderbird |
Liferea Straw Syndigator RSSOwl BlogBridge Thunderbird |
NetNewsWire Tickershock BlogBridge Thunderbird |