STAY IN TOUCH WITH US - WHAT IS RSS ANYWAY?

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But for the most current info from Mother Jones, sign up for our RSS feeds. RSS is a tool that sends you Mother Jones articles automatically, sort of like email. Below, we'll explain RSS aggregators and how you can use them to subscribe to our feed. Don't worry! It's really easy.

Mother Jones has four RSS feeds: Top Stories, MoJoBlog, Blue Marble blog, and The Riff. The Top Stories feed delivers an editor's pick of top stories from both the print magazine and online. The MoJoBlog feed has our current blog content related to news and politics from national to international. The Blue Marble blog features science and health issues as they relate to your world. The Riff has witty, unconventional coverage of under-the-radar arts, media, and culture news.

What do RSS aggregators do?
Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." An aggregator is able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content. (source)

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  Google Reader allows you to subscribe to Mother Jones on your Google Homepage or Google Reader account. Once you have subscribed that way, you'll see Mother Jones' most recent articles either on your Google homepage or in Google Reader. Here's a screen capture:
  

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  You can subscribe to Mother Jones' RSS feed via Yahoo by clicking on the button above. It will add Mother Jones headlines to your My Yahoo! page, and you can move these headlines around the page so they are where you want them. See the screen capture below:
  

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  MSN users can click on the button above. Then, cut & paste our url into the area circled in red (http://feeds.feedburner.com/motherjones/main).
  

• Shrook is a next-generation news reader for Macs that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available anywhere else.

  

  Shrook is both a downloadable application for your Mac, and an account that you can access from any computer in any browser. For more info on Shrook, download it here.

• RSSOwl is a free option that works on all major platforms from the same people who brought you FireFox. Check out the documentation on the RSSOwl site. You can download it here:

  

  Here's is a screen shot of what RSSOwl looks like. To subscribe to Mother Jones' RSS feed, choose "New-->Bookmark" from the "File" menu item.
  
  Then cut & paste our XML feed address into the dialog box (circled in red: http://feeds.feedburner.com/motherjones/main).
  
  

• Bloglines is a web-based aggregator (nothing to download). Here's a peek:
  

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  Newsgator is another useful option.
  

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  Kinja works like other aggregators, but also gives you more: stats, traffic, and one-click access to many other web tools. Check it out:
  

What is XML?

XML is the language the RSS aggregators use to deliver news feeds from sites like motherjones.com. Click here to see our XML feed (for advanced users only).
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