RSS feed readers offer one of the most efficient ways to follow news, web site and software updates, newsletters, blogs and more. (About.com, a part of The New York Times)

Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available. (WhatIsRSS.com)

Feed readers can run on your computer or you can sign up to use a feed-reader that runs on the web. If you use one of the web-based readers, you can access your feeds from anywhere you go, just by signing into the website that manages your feeds. (Six Apart, Ltd.)