City of Raleigh RSS Feeds

• City News and Events - Headline news articles and events from the home page of raleighnc.gov
• Arts & Parks - News articles and events from the Arts & Parks page.
• Government - News articles and events about our City government.
• Employment - Current job opportunities with the City (Permanent, Part-Time, Temporary, Insternship and Volunteer)

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works-such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video-in a standardized format.

An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship.

RSS allows users to avoid manually inspecting all of the websites they are interested in, and instead subscribe to websites such that all new content is pushed to them when it becomes available. An example would be if you set up an RSS feed from the New York Times, you would be notified whenever a new article was posted.

Many web sites provide RSS, which can usually be found on those sites as a link. An orange button is often used to display the service's availability.

RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based.

Many free readers are available, and an internet search will return many options. Some readers are web-based, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo! and Bloglines. Web-based readers require no software installation and are accessible from any computer that has Internet access. Other readers are downloadable applications, such as FeedReader or FeedDemon. You can also configure your desktop email application to contain your feeds.

The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URL or by clicking a feed icon in a web browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.