What is RSS?

Keeping up to date in the Information Age can be very time consuming. Using RSS allows the latest news and features to be delivered directly to you, rather than spending hours surfing on the internet for your updates.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) will allow you to be notified when the Brink Expedition has added an expedition journal update to the website. You can get news on the latest adventures from the Brink Expedition (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without the need to remember to visit the expedition website. And the best bit is, you don't even need to give out your e-mail address. No more spam. It couldn't be simpler.

How do I start getting RSS feeds?

You’ll need a news reader to manage your incoming Brink Expedition feeds. This is a piece of free software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is subscribe to the Brink Expedition RSS feed.

You have probably noticed a large orange RSS button on the right hand side menu. If you click on this button it takes you to the page where you can subscribe to the expedition feeds by cutting and pasting its URL [ www.brinkadventures.org/feed.xml ] into a new feed in your news reader.

Easier still, you can drag the orange RSS logo from the right hand menu over your news reader button on your task bar. After a moment your news reader will open up allowing you to drop the RSS feed inside your news reader’s window and presto, you are now registered to automatically receive Brink Expedition journal updates. What could be easier?

Using these same guidelines you can subscribe to any text, video and audio feeds from thousands of websites on the internet!

How do I get a news reader?

There is a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time. Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer.

You can try the news reader built into the popular Mozilla Thunderbird application.

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