Information about Subscribing to the CIP Program News Updates RSS Feed

What is RSS?
How can I receive the CIP Program News Updates RSS feed?
What's included in the CIP Program News Updates RSS feed?
What software or services can I use to read RSS headlines?
What if I don't want to bother figuring out this 'RSS thing'?

What is RSS?

RSS is an acronym which stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. It is a web content distribution protocol primarily used by news sites and weblogs (blogs). In essence, RSS is a way for people to dynamically distribute headlines and web content. Detailed technical information about RSS is available from Wikipedia .

How can I receive the CIP Program News Updates RSS feed?

By clicking on the link below marked "Feedburner" you can go to a page where you can subscribe to our RSS feed using any of more than a dozen services. If you prefer to use a different service, or if you have a web program that can read an RSS feed directly, click on the XML icon link. Usually you can just cut and paste this URL for use in your preferred service or software.

What's included in the CIP Program News Updates RSS feed?

The CIP Program News Updates RSS feed provides news about events, new publications and other activities of the CIP Program located at George Mason School of Law. The RSS feed contains the most recent 10 headlines for items we have added, and they are automatically updated.

What software or services can I use to read RSS headlines?

Frequently, people who choose to read several RSS feeds or blogs at once will choose to monitor them with an Internet-based service such as Bloglines or by adding them to the MyYahoo! service. Another common way to read these kinds of services is by using news aggregator software. In addition to this, the Internet browser software Firefox (from The Mozilla Organization) allows you to read RSS headlines as live bookmarks. Because RSS is a widely-used distribution protocol, there are numerous other ways that a person might use these sources now or in the future.

What if I don't want to bother figuring out this 'RSS thing'?

If you don't want to figure out how to use our RSS feeds or related software or services, then don't bother. All of the content available through our RSS feeds appears directly on our own site. The News and Events index page is updated at the exact same time as the RSS feed. Also, the most recent five headlines appear across most pages of our website. The advantage to using RSS is that you can review news headlines from many sources as they are published. Also, you don't have to come back to our site to see when we've posted new information.