What is RSS?

RSS is a way for readers to easily know when a website has been updated, without having to browse to a site and look for the updates.

Allegheny provides many different RSS feeds that allow you to stay up-to-date with all the news, events and happenings on campus. By adding any of the Allegheny RSS feeds into your favorite aggregator, you will be notified when updates are posted to the Allegheny website. Don't worry if they look a little strange when you view them in your web browser - the news aggregators below know exactly what to do with them.

Additional resources for further reading:
Aggregators Attack Info Overload (Wired News)
The latest info – tailor-made for you (Christian Science Monitor)
More about RSS (Wikipedia)

News Reader Software

Apple Safari - Read and subscribe to feeds inside your browser.

Bloglines - A free web-based news reader that can be accessed from a web browser anywhere there is an internet connection.

FeedDemon - A news reader for Windows.

Google News Reader - Free web-based RSS reader from Google.

Mozilla Firefox - Read and subscribe to feeds inside your browser.

NetNewsWire - A Mac OS X news reader with a free 30-day trial and $39.99 if you decide to purchase. A free version is also available.

PulpFiction - Another excellent news reader for Macintosh.

Other news readers (aggregators).