RSS content is delivered through RSS feeds --- simple files structured in a specific way.
These files include some basic information about the RSS feed (such as RSS feed title, logo, description, URL etc.) and the actual content you want to deliver to your readers.
These content items are individual stories or articles (usually just descriptions of articles actually published on the internet publisher’s web site), presented in a linear list.
But RSS is not only about text. You can easily use it to deliver audio content, video content and even PowerPoint presentations and PDF file.
The point of RSS feeds is to get people to subscribe to them, so that they can constantly receive fresh information from you.
It’s just like subscribing to e-mail newsletters, only that there’s no e-mail involved … and consequently no spam or spam filters.
But to subscribe to your RSS feeds, your visitors need a special tool, called an RSS aggregator.
RSS aggregators are special tools that can take an RSS feed and display it to the end-user. They come in many different forms and flavors, but the most popular are desktop applications and web readers.