I read a very simple explanation of RSS that makes the most sense:

'Use RSS for others to borrow your content and for you to pull content from other sites.'

With this said, I was hoping people could elaborate further on RSS.

If I am browsing the net, say Yahoo Sports or NFL dot com, and I see a really cool sports story that I think the readers of my 'football blog' would like to read... can I press a button or do some sort of action that will automatically take that article and transfer it to my blog or somewhere specificed on my site and list it with all the content preserved and copyright info in tact so I don't have to make any edits?

What I have been doing is going onto websites and copying and pasting articles into my blogs from time to time (when I want to borrow content) and then I have to go through the process of giving credit to author, uploading the images attached, etc., and it takes me 5 minutes for 1 measily article, and I got sick of it.

I was trying to figure out with this RSS if there is a way to basically click an icon or link or something and have it set up to 'borrow' the content legally without any copyright issues and post it on my site or blog automatically without all the steps I have been doing. And then the other benefit I'm assuming from this (if it is something you can do/possible to do) is that by keeping it all in tact, I would think it would provide an external link back out and if RSS'd it will get a little/lot more exposure from other readers if it's RSS'd from a big-time site that has a lot of users/content? I THINK I am thinking right here haha but not sure if this makes sense, any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated-especially on 'exactly how to do this/the steps to do it' and if it's legal, and what I would need to add into my site or blog as far as gidget/widget/module/etc.

Thanks

If you are using WordPress this page "Display any rss feed on your WordPress blog" might help.

Bob

It is really not that simple. The legalities of syndicating RSS feeds are unclear. Here is a great article that delves into the issue:
http://www.feedforall.com/rss-copyright-debate.htm

Once you sort out the legalities displaying the RSS within your HTML website is not difficult. The easiest/best way to do this is to use RSS2HTML a free PHP script. This means that you can retain the complete control of the HTML layout (using templates) and make it match your existing design. Additionally using PHP rather than JavaScript will mean that search engine spiders can "spider" the contents of the RSS feeds.

Additional details and a free rss2html download is available at: http://www.feedforall.com/more-php.htm

Additional information and other options for displaying RSS feeds can be found at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/di...-rss-feeds.htm

HTH

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OK Thanks for that info. I'm still not exactly up on the lingo nor do I know how to do any programming or html so I'm a little confused I guess. But I will research it more. That last link seems to be a great summary of everything, explaining the benefits of each method to RSS. It's interesting with the copyright discussion link, I wonder what the end-result will be, as far as whether or not it is legal or illegal to use RSS to 'borrow' content.

On another note, is there ways to use RSS manually, meaning can I go on a SPECIFIC article on a website and use just that article? Or do you have to have it set up on auto-pilate to constantly pull info through the RSS which lists all the updates/articles from that site? There are times I just want to use 1 article and have it posted in my blog...