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May 1 is RSS Awareness Day. The goal of RSS Awareness Day is to increase knowledge about RSS so the general public is more familiar with the concept. Organizers are hopeful that the exposure to RSS will increase the usage of feeds and Internet applications that support RSS.

For those not familiar with RSS, it stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” You can “subscribe” to a feed in a browser like Internet Explorer 7. If you have ever noticed an orange icon that highlights when you are on a blog, that page has a feed you can subscribe to. The benefits to subscribing are that you are notified of new content with out having to visit the page. If you are not an IE7 user, you can subscribe to feeds using Bloglines, Google Reader, or any other feed reader that you can find with a simple Google Search. Besides being able to subscribe to blogs, there are many sites that have RSS feeds including CNN and Flickr.

Give it a try. If you’re not sure if RSS is still for you, many websites, including this one, allow you to subscribe via email. Fresh content delivered to your mailbox– It’s Internet browsing made easier.  Try it out, and while your at it you can subscribe to Newly Corporate as well!