RSS provides a convenient
way for content publishers to distribute information in
a standardized format. A standardized XML file format
allows the information to be published once, and then
viewed by many different programs such as Microsoft
Office Outlook 2007. A common example of RSS content is
sources of information such as news headlines that are
frequently updated.
The benefit of RSS is the
aggregation of all content from multiple Web sources in
one place. You no longer have to visit different Web
sites for news, weather, blogs, and other information.
With RSS, summaries of content are delivered to you, and
then you decide which specific articles you want to read
by clicking a link.
The
delivery mechanism for RSS content is known as an RSS
feed. There are millions of RSS feeds that consist of
headlines or short summaries of content with a link
provided to the original source. The feeds can also
contain the complete content, and include attachments of
almost any type. Other names for RSS feeds are Web
feeds, XML feeds, RSS channels, and syndicated content.
You can discover new RSS
feeds in several ways. On Web sites that offer this
feature, you might see the
,
or,
. In some Web browsers, such as Microsoft Windows
Internet Explorer 7, when you click these buttons, you
can subscribe to the associated feed.
You can also enter the
Internet address, known as the URL, of an RSS feed
directly in Outlook.
This
annual event was originally organized in 1952 as "National
Secretaries Week" by the National Secretaries Association
(now known as the International Association of
Administrative Professionals) in conjunction with public
relations executive Harry Klemfuss and a consortium of
office product manufacturers. It was established as an
effort to recognize secretaries for their contributions in
the workplace, and to attract people to
secretarial/administrative careers. 
It
seems like stamps are rising in cost so much lately. But it's
really been a historic trend since the beginning of the 1970s.
That decade saw the cost of stamps have turned the sharp spike
upward, and it's kept a pretty consistent pace.
