Once and a while I notice that a blog in my RSS Blogroll will have an unusual amount of posts showing unread. And as always happens, I come to find out that every post that they’ve made from that last 6 months suddenly re-appears in my inbox. Now the question I ask to you is this? Why does this happen? Is it the fault of Mozilla Thunderbird, which is my RSS reader? Or is it the feed provider (Wordpress or Feedburner) that is to blame?

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 RSS, short for “Real Simple Syndication”, is a technology that is actually been around for a little while, but has until recently hid from the mainstream. RSS is an XML-scripted programming language that “feeds” a webpage into a RSS reader, which is a desktop software program very similar to Microsoft Outlook or other email programs. The technology works very similar to the way email works, but with less fuss for both the reader and more importantly the writer.

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