This is a great explainer about RSS feeds to link your friends!

“Always-on” RSS and OPML menus for the Windows taskbar

“The Atom format and protocol builds on earlier efforts to establish an open, extensible, interoperable, and clearly specified framework for Web-logging applications.”

Universal Feed Aggregator in Python

“people access documents written in a markup language that have been published on a Web server with a software application. If this seems familiar to you, it should. It’s called Web browsing and has nothing to do with syndication”