What is RSS feed?
You might have noticed the orange icon on many pages of iMechanica. The icon stands for Really Simple Syndication, better known as RSS feed. To read RSS feeds, you will need to set up RSS feed readers. The fead reader updates the titles of the feeds on your computer. You can view all the titles at a glance, with each title linking to the full post.

Set up a feed reader in 1 minute
A free, considered by some the best, feed reader is Netvibes. To set it up, go to http://www.netvibes.com/, and sign up. Bookmark this site.

Subscribe to a feed

1. Click "Add Content" at the upper-left corner.
2. Click "Add my feed" at the top of the sidebar on the left. A box appears.
3. Paste into the box this address http://imechanica.org/rss.xml. Click "add".

You have just subscribed to the front page of iMechanica.

RSS feeds of iMechanica:

• Front page. http://imechanica.org/rss.xml
• Comments on all posts. http://imechanica.org/crss
• All blog posts. http://imechanica.org/blog/feed
• Create your own feeds

Other popular feed readers

• Google Reader has become an excellent RSS feed reader.
• You can also receive emails of posts and comments of a type that you specify.

How to find RSS feeds?
For example, click research in the header of iMechanica, and you will see recent papers characterized by their authors by the tag research. At the bottom of this page, you will see the orange icon. Click the icon, you land on an unsightful site. Ignore the sight, and copy the URL of the site.

To find RSS feeds of web sites other than iMechanica, you can Google. For example, type in the search window the string: new york times RSS. Hit return and watch what happens.