What's the skinny on RSS newsfeeds and newsfeed readers?

[421Fill]

Is anyone here familiar with rss newsfeeds? I was looking at
http://www.rssreader.com/
and want to try it out, but I am not familiar with them at all.

Are they safe? I mean, the list of feeds on that site are basically major corporations, so I doubt they'd try any monkey business, but would the reader program open one's computer, so to speak, to the outside world?

Are they a waste of time? Is it easier/better, or even the norm, to simply go to the news sites them selves, or a portal site of sorts?

[Juicy D. Links]

Use my feed

http://www.juicylinks.com/blog/

http://www.juicylinks.com/blog/index.rdf

[- Jesus Christ -]

Its impossible to do naything malicious over RSS (as far as I know)

http://www.videogamessuck.com/backend.php

[421Fill]

Originally posted by juicylinks
Use my feed

http://www.juicylinks.com/blog/

http://www.juicylinks.com/blog/index.rdf

nice site. lol, I'll use your feed.

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by turbo


nice site. lol, I'll use your feed on my blog. I'll show when the design is ready.. got the script setup last night.

Cool Ill return syndicate your stuff also .

[421Fill]

Originally posted by juicylinks


Cool Ill return syndicate your stuff also .

could you hit me up on icq? 118359426 how does that work? sydication...

[inthestars]

Originally posted by turbo
Is anyone here familiar with rss newsfeeds? I was looking at
http://www.rssreader.com/
and want to try it out, but I am not familiar with them at all.

Are they safe? I mean, the list of feeds on that site are basically major corporations, so I doubt they'd try any monkey business, but would the reader program open one's computer, so to speak, to the outside world?

Are they a waste of time? Is it easier/better, or even the norm, to simply go to the news sites them selves, or a portal site of sorts?

I think that for someone at work where certain sites can be blocked, being able to read the RSS feed is one way to circumvent the system.