RSS User's Guide
- Direct link to the XML feed
-- for users who already have an RSS reader set up - What is RSS?
- Governor's Flag Proclamation Home
RSS Basics
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS feed to whomever signs up for it. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like BBC International, Yahoo News, The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, MSNBC, Google News, Wired, Computerworld and CNET News. RSS is a text-based format, a type of XML. The most common use for RSS files is for news and other reverse-chronologically ordered websites like blogs.
Why RSS?
Benefits and Reasons for using RSS: RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the websites you are interested in, as soon as it’s published, without having to visit the websites individually to search for the content. You save time by not needing to visit each web site and you also ensure your privacy by not having to join each website's email newsletter.
How to Access this RSS Feed
- Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2: These versions of the popular web browsers have built-in RSS reader capability. If you have either one, just click here, then you can read the feed, and subscribe to it (in Internet Explorer you click a "Subscribe to this feed" link, in Firefox you hit a button to add it to your "Live Bookmarks").
- Non-browser RSS reader programs: Hundreds are available for all platforms and systems. Here is a list from the Open Directory. After installing a reader program on your computer, you would do a "Subscribe" operation and give as the feed URL http://governor.mt.gov/rss/index.xml
State RSS Feeds
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Governor's Office |
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News Releases | |
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Flag Proclamations | |
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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks |
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Recent FWP News | |
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Hunting News | |
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Fishing News | |
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Drought News | |
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Parks News | |
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Employment News | |
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Montana State Library |
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Montana State Library | |
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State Law Library of Montana | |
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Travel Montana |
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Recent News | |
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Fire & Drought Information | |
