These days, many people get news through social media. But those networks offer scattershot algorithmic feeds, and are heavily invested in user interaction.
In other words, they want you to stay on their sites, not head off to read stories elsewhere. By contrast, RSS (Rich Site Summary) is all about curating your own news feeds, focusing on sources you know, like and trust, in the knowledge you won’t miss headlines that matter.
With RSS, sites offer feeds that are retrieved and presented by news aggregators. You, the reader, use an aggregator to subscribe to feeds, freeing you from regularly manually checking a site, and giving you a nice interface through which to read the content.
In our walkthrough, you’ll learn how to set up Feedly on your iPhone – it’s…