What can I do with feeds?

So, once you've found one or more RSS feeds you want to subscribe to so you can keep up to date with their content, what’s next? What you need is a way of grouping your feeds together and displaying them so you can see them all in one place. There are several ways of doing this, which one you choose really depends on which you find easiest. All the different ways of using feeds usually offer some things in common:

a. a way of subscribing to feeds – pointing to the location, like a website address, where all the up-to-date feed content will be available
b. a way of displaying all the feeds you have subscribed to
c. a way of telling you which feeds have new content in them
d. a way of following links back to the full content on the website

Lots of different companies offer separate downloadable programs (often called 'desktop readers') that will do most of the above and some websites (often called 'web-based readers') and even some web browsers will read and present RSS feeds too.

The BBC does not have its own feed reader, but there are lots of different sites which review and recommend various readers. If you search for "feed finder" or "RSS reader" in your search engine, you will find some of the more popular ones.