If you want to get content as it is created and shared and in a format more flexible than an email digest, however, you’ll need RSS.
For some content and perhaps for your particular reading style, email digests may be a perfect fit and they’re still in use by many web sites-if you’re interested in getting daily email updated from How-To Geek, for example, you can subscribe to the daily email here. Material from the site gets packed up in a daily, weekly, or monthly digest, and fired off via email.
Historically, web sites mimicked analog mailing lists in order to deliver content. RSS is like bookmarking in that you flag the site to be used in the future, but instead of sitting statically in your bookmark folder, your RSS “bookmark” is an active entity that is constantly updating itself with new content from the saved source. Normally you bookmark a site and you have to go look in your bookmarks to click on the site to get new content. In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added. One of the easiest ways to envision RSS is that is is like a living bookmark file. RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites. RSS may be one of the most underutilized but incredibly useful tools around.
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