RSS, often described as "Really Simple Syndication," allows web readers to create a menu of updated news sources. Web readers can link to headlines on topics of their choosing on a variety of web sites. In our case, STLtoday.com offers a selection of RSS feeds that provide updated news, features and commentary from around the site. Place the RSS feed of your choice into your RSS reader and each headline will link you back to STLtoday.com for the entire story.
What are the terms of use?
The content of STLtoday.com is protected by U.S. copyright laws. The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses. You may display the headline, active links and any other information provided in the RSS feed on your personal or non-commercial web site. You should provide attribution to STLtoday.com in connection with your use of the feeds.
Information within the feed should not be changed, deleted or redistributed. Use of the feeds does not imply that STLtoday.com or the St. Louis Post-Dispatch endorses, promotes or supports any third-party cause, product or service.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com reserve the right to require you to cease distributing these feeds at any time for any reason.
How can you use RSS?
RSS feeds can be incorporated into a variety of different "readers," giving you access to the headlines in a variety of different ways.
Blog software: For example, RSS feeds are commonly incorporated into weblogs. Blogs are web pages comprised of usually short, frequently updated items and web links. Blogging as a publishing tool is used for purposes: traditionally journalism, personal journals, group discussions around a topic, and many combinations in-between.
News readers or aggregators: These software programs will collect, update and display RSS feeds from any number of sources. A number of free and commercial news aggregators are available for download. Some of the most popular news readers, according to Yahoo!, include:
Web browsers: Some web browsers, including Firefox, allow you to incorporate RSS feeds that will be downloaded and viewable through the browser. In the case of Firefox, they are called "Active Bookmarks." Internet Explorer users can download a plugin called RSSExplorer.
Personalized web sites: Some web sites that allow readers to personalize their pages -- My Yahoo!, for example -- also allow you to incorporate RSS feeds onto your personalized pages. You may click the "Add to My Yahoo!" button to add a feed directly to your personalized page in Yahoo!.
To sign up for RSS feeds, select the STLtoday.com section that interests you from the list on this page. Click on the orange XML button or section title and follow the instructions for your particular news reader to subscribe to RSS feeds.
RSS Feeds
