RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds are a great way to keep up-to-date on the content published on the Insourced web site and ours will be updated automatically when new blog posts are published, as well as when new jobs are posted.

Insourced feeds are displayed on many pages throughout the site and feeds in general are denoted with the small feed icon Feed Icon.

We also have feeds of the comments and discussions associated with our blog entries. You can see an example of one of these feeds here.

Using Insourced RSS Feeds

Insourced RSS Feeds are presented in the RSS 2.0 format and can be read in any RSS-capable browser (like Firefox) or news reader. You may also parse our feeds by using any of a variety of scripts and display our feed headlines on your web site.

What the Heck is an RSS Feed? A Feed Reader?

Good question. RSS stands for "Rich Site Summary" or "Really Simple Syndication" or "RDF Site Summary"? Huh? Yes, there are multiple "definitions" of the acronym and "RDF Site Summary" proponents are kind enough to throw out an acronym inside an acronym for us. What RSS stands for doesn't really matter, though, at least not nearly as much as what it does.

RSS is an xml-based format that allows for the simple syndication and distribution of site content. In other words, if you have a news reader or subscribe to a free online feed reader like "My Yahoo" or "Google Reader", you can use that reader to see, in real time, the newest posts or headlines of blogs, news sites, etc. Note that a "news reader" is also referred to as a "feed reader" and "RSS reader", among other things.

RSS is particularly useful if you read through a number of web sites each day, as the feed reader will aggregate the headlines, new post titles or even new job listings of the sites that you wish to follow, and you can then visit only the items that are of interest to you. Because of this aggregation capability, feed readers are also referred to as "aggregators".