Favorite RSS feeds
 

I'm new to the world of RSS feeds and think they are great if you can find some travel related ones.

Anyone care to share some European or general topic RSS feeds?

Now if someone could please explain what an RSS feed is, what do you do with it and why do I want it, I would be grateful.

NO, I am not being nasty in anyway, I really want to know!

Lydia

I have no idea what RSS feeds refer to either mdtravel. Would you be kind enough to explain.

I don't know that I can do a good job of explaining it. Basically, it is a way to aggregate web pages and blogs into one reading source that gets updated as changes to that content occurs. The easiest way for me to explain how I started is weather. I can go to weather.com and pick as many cities as I want, set them up as RSS feeds and get weather conditions in my RSS reader every day. Or the USA Today travel section...or the CNN travel section.

I downloaded RSS Bandit (free) as my reader.

Here is a better explanation. As you surf the web, start watchin for the little orange rectangle that says RSS or XML in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)

slowtrav and frommers have RSS feeds.
MSNBC has an RSS feed for their travel section.
travellerspoint has a feed for its forum posts.
allonlinecoupons has RSS for travel bargains and sales.
The BBC website has RSS feeds but I don't know if you can limit it to travel related news.
del.icio.us has an RSS feed for travel related posts, but those will not be news related, just various travel related websites that people found interesting enough to share.

Overall I have not found these to be particularly useful but as more people get up to speed on RSS perhaps the quality will improve.

Bonjourparis has added an RSS feed (deals with France and more particular with Paris)
Goto www.bonjourparis.com for a free subscription.

I've had luck with the Google News RSS feed. You structure your search (Budapest travel), and then sign up for the RSS feed. It will search your terms (daily?) and send any new results to your feed reader.

It also has a nice summary of what RSS is and how to use it.

Since Google News crawls most major and minor newspapers and news sites, it has a lot of travel info.

RSS Feeds are paragraphs of information that describe in brief an article and have a link to it. Websites and blogs offer feeds to allow you to stay on top of what new articles they've posted. You can find a list of Lifestyle rss feeds at http://www.nowsta.com/best-lifestyle-rss-feeds Within that Lifestyle section is a travel section. Just click on one of the links and you'll know what an RSS feeds is.