What are these?

The St John's News RSS feeds are a means of reading the news in a Desktop Application, meaning that you can easily keep and eye on whats happening at St John's.

So, how do I access the feeds?

The RSS feed is available from http://www.stjohns-burscough.org/RSS.php.

What is RSS?

The RDF Site Summary is actually an extension to the RDF language. Quoting the official RSS v1.0 specification (the version which is used in the Status Feed)

RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF specification and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularization. RSS is also sometimes taken to mean Rich Site Summary.

How do I read the RSS Feed?

You can view the Syndicated Feeds by using an RSS Aggregator. A list of RSS Aggregators is available by searching your favourite Search Engine. For example, Google's list

Can you recommend any particular Aggregators for my Operating System?

Windows
FeedReader [Download]
Desktop Sidebar [Download]
KlipFolio [Download]

Linux
Tollwut

Macintosh
NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire Lite