In the beginning there was the web, and it was good. We fired up our web browsers, entered the site address and navigated ourselves to these wonderful new pages of information and delight. But slowly things began to change. We found that keeping up to date with our growing number of favourite sites was becoming more of a chore than a pleasure. We would spend hours browsing our essential pages and still not be done by lunch, and this was not a good thing. Then, just at the point where most of us were about to give it all up in a desperate bid to escape information overload, along came a saviour, a white knight bearing the promise of the age. The RSS standard was born. You may have seen on various websites the small orange box with either RSS or XML printed on it. This is the symbology to indicate that the website has an online feed of information or material for you to use.

What is RSS?

RSS, also known as Really Simple Syndication, is an exciting new technology which lets you collate and access a constantly updating stream of material in a simple and ingenious way. Instead of having to laboriously navigate to the latest news sites, and then have to install a small program (RSS reader program ) which collects the headlines and downloads them to your computer, we have done all the hard work for you, by providing a separate page within the Lyneham Village Online domain that does all the conversion of feeds into a form that is online for you. Every time a new story is posted on the source site, its headline appears in your RSS page and you can then decide whether you want to click on the headline link and read the whole story or skim to the next piece of news.

Each retrieved list of headlines is called a feed, which incidentally are the latest news stories are updated regularly, are dispalyed on one page for you to be able to skim read, the collated set of web site headlines. We have provided this representation like this and it will cut down the time it takes to access your favourite sites considerably. It’s like having a very efficient butler who cuts out the headlines of your favourite newspapers and serves them to you on a tray, but without the hassle of having to pay holiday benefits.

We have collated the links that provide the latest local, national and world RSS News Feeds, which invariably will be the most up-to-date news items as they occur all presented on one page. You will undoubtedly, see the headlines in most cases before they are put into typeset and then published in your daily papers. The Lyneham Village Online News Feed provides the latest information on the website updates, news stories that are associated with our village. It is the raw data feed for use in external RSS News readers. We have done the hard work by providing a separate page with the data converted into an easily read manner. See Lyneham Page here