Available RSS feeds

Drag one of the following to your RSS news reader:

Results and fixtures only
All the latest news and events only
Both the latest news and fixtures and results

What is RSS? (or Really Simple Syndication)

In a world heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be a drag.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day. The Ickenham CC website gives you three options:

• news about fixtures - new fixtures; results etc.
• other news and events, including social news and other goings on at the club
• both the above

Hundreds of sites now have RSS feeds. RSS takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help to think of them as the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines.

Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity. Prestigious sites like the BBC and Ickenham CC use RSS extensively.

How do I start using RSS feeds?

In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest news on Ickenham, simply click on one of the buttons at the top of this page or drag the button into your news reader or cut and paste the buttons URL into a new feed in your news reader.

For more information about news readers try searching the web (eg Google) for "RSS readers".