RSS is a great way of keeping up to date with websites that change regularly. It means you don’t have to keep going back and checking the site. The BBC news service, for example, is offered in an RSS news feed.

The Assistech site has a news feed and the CiteUlike Assistive Technology group also has a feed.

• Drag the RSS button into your RSS reader or click on the little orange RSS icon (if you use firefox)... If this doesn’t work, the direct URL is: http://assistech.org.uk/feed.php
• Job done! Open your RSS reader regularly too look at any new changes on the site.

• I use Google Reader - it is the best reader i’ve used so far and makes reading multiple news feeds easy (I particularly like the fact it marks something as read as you scroll past it). You can also look at it through Gmail (see below).
• Other alternatives:
  • firefox web browser with lots of options, e.g.sage.
  • There are also lots of free RSS readers, e.g. RSSBandit
  • You can also use an online service, for example bloglines or Google Reader.

This is easy and quite cool.

• Log on to your Gmail account.
• Click on ‘Settings’
• Click on ‘Web Clips’
• Get rid (remove) all the other web clips if you don’t want them popping up.
  • Search for ‘Assistech’ for the Assistech WIKI news feed
  • Search for ‘citeulike Assistive technology group’ for the CiteUlike Assistive Technology group citations feed.
• The Assistech feed comes up as the first feed, Click ‘Add’
• Job done, Assistech news will now appear in the top of you Gmail screen.

— Simon Judge 2006/06/13