What is RSS for Loudoun News?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) provides an easy way to create and disseminate Loudoun news feeds of data that include, for example, Loudoun news links, headlines, and summaries.

Loudouni.com is now offering feeds in RSS format for many areas of its news content.

What are the terms of use?

The Loudoun news feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses. We ask that you provide attribution to Loudouni.com in connection with your use of the feeds, either with a hyperlink or image. Under some circumstances, the feeds may be available for commercial use. If you operate a commercial site, please contact us before using the feeds.

Attribution for the feeds should read "Loudoun Independent".

Please do not change the information that credits the individual newspaper or Web site for the origination of articles.

The Loudoun Independent reserves the right to require you to cease distributing these Loudoun news feeds at any time for any reason.

How can you use RSS?

RSS feeds are commonly incorporated into weblogs or displayed using a program known as a news aggregator, which collects, updates and displays RSS feeds from any number of sources.

News aggregators, also called news readers, download and display RSS feeds for you. A number of free and commercial news aggregators are available for download, some are avaiable as web-based readers. Some of the most popular news readers, according to Yahoo!, include:

• Pluck (download)
• Google Reader (web-based)
• Feedreader (download)
• Bloglines (web-based)
• Newsgator (stand-alone program or Outlook plug-in)

More Information

For additional information about RSS, try these sites:

• Wikipedia - RSS File Format
• Introduction to RSS on WebReference.com
• What is RSS?