RSS Feeds

What is RSS?
RSS is defined as Really Simple Syndication. RSS feeds are XML code written to provide content summaries of goatoronto.com news. An RSS channel consists of a list of items, each of which contains a headline, news story, and a link to a web page on goatoronto.com.

What do I need to get started?
You will need an RSS newsreader or aggregator in order to read the XML code. There are many different types of RSS readers. Many of the programs are free and can be found by Googling RSS readers. We have compiled a list of some of the more popular readers here (opens in a new window).

I have my newsreader now what?
On goatoronto.com you will find links that look this . Click on the icon and a new window will pop-up with the RSS feed.  You may copy the URL so you can paste it into your RSS reader when prompted - your newsreader will have a button or option to "subscribe to" or "add" RSS feeds - or you may read the news straight from the pop-window via Feedburner.

Here is a list of some of the more popular RSS/Atom readers:

Firefox
Free, full-featured browser with a built-in newsreader. Secure, flexible and very easy to use.

Google Reader
Google Reader is free to use. You must have a gmail account to use this service.

Feedreader
Free, desktop download for Windows. Easy, streamlined.

NetNewsWire
For Macintosh, this desktop program has a free Lite version and a feature-rich for-free upgrade.

Sage
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.

Safari for Mac OS X
"Safari RSS lets you take these news feeds and view them together in a simple, ad-free list, so you can quickly find all the articles that interest you from across the Web. Safari is compatible with all the RSS feeds on the Internet because of its standards-based support for RSS 0.9, RSS 1, RSS 2 and Atom."