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Question: If something is in an RSS feed, it is perfectly fine to reproduce the content of the diet. I believe after all RSS means really simple syndication, right? Reply: no, it is not true. Regardless of whether the content is in a feed or not, has the original creator of content the right to restrict its use. While most people feel that if the content is in an RSS feed, it will be available for syndication--it is not always the case. Various groups have made efforts to add namespaces which expand the tags used in RSS, define whether the content is available for syndication. The two most notable namespaces that detailed permissions are Creative Commons extension and Blog lines ' access extension. These two extensions not yet widely supported so that it is always best to check the conditions for the service associated with the feed or Web site on the feed is available for syndication.Questions: RSS is only for blogs right? All blogs have RSS feeds right? Reply: no, and no! While blogs may have contributed to the increasing popularity of RSS feeds, RSS feeds are not specific to blogs. RSS feeds can be used for all types of content not just blogs. In fact, there are probably several RSS feeds for non-blogs than there are feeds for blogs. Publishers have used RSS feeds for articles, press releases, discounts, podcasts, calendars, alerts, and the list goes on and. Question: when I add a new item to the feed, do I edit just the old rss file or do I create a new one? Reply: If you want to add content in connection with the theme of the original RSS feed, you should always extend your existing RSS feed, rather than to create a new feed. Do not edit any of the RSS feed existing elements, only to add a new item to your existing RSS feed.Question: can RSS Feeds be configured for private list subscribers and what kind of security is available for the RSS sources to support a private feed? Reply: Yes, while there is no provision in the RSS 2.0 specification for passwords or protect files, you can use any available security mechanism on the http server to protect your entire RSS feed. Security settings are dependent on the capabilities of your Web server.Question: what is a feed reader? Reply: A feed reader can also refer to a news aggregator. RSS feed-readers come in all shapes and sizes and are just tools that make it easy for users to view content or headlines in RSS feeds they subscribe to. Feed readers can be desktop applications or Web applications. Desktop readers are applications that behave similar to an e-mail client, you add new feeds, and when RSS feeds that you subscribe to is updated new elements can appear in the RSS reader. Web aggregators Web sites that aggregate all of your favorite feeds, the Web page is updated dynamically as new items are added to the feeds you subscribe to. Many e-mail programs now includes also the possibility to monitor RSS feeds. RSS popularity increases, expand the options to read and monitor RSS feeds.Question: can you block a search engine from access to a feed? Reply: You can use a robots.txt file to indicate to search engines, there are specific RSS feeds do not want indexed. Most search engines will comply with the contents of a correctly formatted robots.txt file. Question: what is a GUID? Reply: A GUID is a globally unique identifier. RSS specification strongly suggests that each RSS feed item has a unique GUID. If you are creating feeds, a GUID is important because Guids are often used by feed readers and aggregators to determine whether a feed item is new or simply an existing element that has been updated. Each element in the RSS feed should have a different GUID. Interested in additional RSS FAQs visit RSS Knowledge base http://www.feedforall.com/knowledgebase.htm or subscribe to the RSS Knowledgebase feed http://www.feedforall.com/knowledgebase.php about the author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for Note Page http://www.notepage.net a wireless text messaging software company.