Feeding RSS
Back when RSS feeds were new, media companies were prominently promoting them as a means to subscribe and retrieve content updates. Over time, different means of notification and content consumption moved RSS into the background. There was also the potential confusion that nontechnical users had when clicking an RSS link only to see a bunch of XML code render in their browser window. Consequently, major media providers removed RSS references from their pages, but most news outlets still offer many of these RSS feeds if you know where to look for them.
For example, most blogging websites built on WordPress offer the ability to retreive their RSS feed by simply adding /feed/ after the site’s domain name, such as the one for hackaday.com. ...
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