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A syndication feed or web feed provides a way to watch a web site or virtually any type of data stream. You can read feeds in lots of different ways, including using:

• a web browser to view web pages where the feed items are presented
  
• an aggregator or feed reader, for example one of the feed readers listed at eLib
  
• an NNTP client and a feed-to-NNTP service, for example the Genecast News Service
  
• an email client and a feed-to-email service, for example FeedBlitz, R-mail, RssFwd, Squeet, or one of the feed-to-email services listed at eLib
  

To find the feeds for a site, look for an RSS, XML, plus (+), or Mozilla feed icon (). Now that the Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera browsers are switching to the Mozilla feed icon, many sites & tools are adopting it and it seems that it is on the way to becoming a standard.

Note that Deflexion.com produces two feeds: one for the Deflexions (del.icio.us bookmarks) and one for the Reflexions (Blogger blog items). Deflexion.com's feeds and subscription options are in the sidebar on the Deflexion.com web site.

2006-April-11 Update: Thanks to this post in Randy Charles Morin's RSS Blog, I learned that Wikipedia decided to delete their List of news aggregators page. Fortunately, a similar page exists at eLib and I just fixed the broken Wikipedia links that were in the list above. Hooray for the Internet making it easy to route around problems!

2006-June-13 Update: Because of the controversy (part 1 and part 2) surrounding Mozilla's 2006-03-14 application to trademark the feed icon (), I have switched to using an unencumbered feed image ().
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